| Abstract: | Buldir Depression is a large, rectilinear basin that lies on the northern edge of the Aleutian Ridge and is aligned with the arcuate chain of active volcanoes on the ridge crest. The depression appears to be a volcanic-tectonic feature, which began to form in Late Tertiary time and which is still forming. It is a graben formed by extensional rifting and accompanied by contemporaneous volcanism on the Aleutian Ridge. Subsidence rates for the depression are estimated at 20-70 cm/1,000 years. Sediments in the depression are 300 m thick and are probably pelagic and turbidite deposits of Pleistocene age. The turbidites were apparently derived from the plateau area of the Aleutian Ridge surrounding the depression. Older sediments on the northern slope of the Aleutian Ridge have a maximum thickness of 550 m and are deformed and slumped toward the Bering Sea. These sediments are postulated to overlie a mid-flank terrace on the northern Aleutian Ridge that titled to the north during the formation of Buldir Depression. ?? 1970. |
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| Citation Author: | Marlow, M. S.; Scholl, D. W.; Buffington, E. C.; Boyce, R. E.; Alpha, T. R.; Smith, P. J.; Shipek, C. J. |
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| Citation Search Results Text: | Buldir Depression - A Late Tertiary graben on the Aleutian Ridge, Alaska; 1970; Article; Journal; Marine Geology; Marlow, M. S.; Scholl, D. W.; Buffington, E. C.; Boyce, R. E.; Alpha, T. R.; Smith, P. J.; Shipek, C. J. |
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| Text: | Buldir Depression - A Late Tertiary graben on the Aleutian Ridge, Alaska; 1970; Article; Journal; Marine Geology; Marlow, M. S.; Scholl, D. W.; Buffington, E. C.; Boyce, R. E.; Alpha, T. R.; Smith, P. J.; Shipek, C. J. |
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| Date Other: | Thu, 1 Jan 1970 00:00 -0600 |
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