Field guide to the geology of the Denali National Park Road and the Parks Highway from Cantwell to Healy
Hults CP, Capps DL, Brease PF. 2013. Field guide to the geology of the Denali National Park Road and the Parks Highway from Cantwell to Healy. Alaska Geological Society Field Guide. Anchorage, Alaska
The Denali National Park & Preserve area provides one of the few opportunities in Alaska for road-side access to good rock outcrops. The rocks and surficial deposits exposed in the Denali area span from the Paleozoic to the Quaternary. It is a structurally complex area that contains a history of rifting, accretion, and orogeny. There is evidence of multiple metamorphic events in the Mesozoic, mountain building in the Tertiary, and faulting in the present day. The region is the site of active faulting along one of the largest intra-continental fault systems, the Denali Fault system, which was the locus of a 7.9 M earthquake in 2002. This guidebook describes the key outcrops viewable along the Denali Park Road from the entrance to the Eielson Visitor Center, and along the Parks Highway from Healy to Cantwell.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Hults, Chad; Capps, Denny; Brease, Phil
- Date of Issue
- 2013
- Units
- DENA
- Keywords
- Basalt, Bedrock, Cantwell formation, Conglomerate, Cretaceous, Denali Fault, dinosaur, Eielson, field trip, flysch, Geology, Geomorphology, Glacier, Glaciology, greenstone, Hines Creek Fault, Igloo Mountain, igneous, Jurassic, Kahiltna, land slide, McKinley, metamorphic, Murie Science and Learning Center, Nenana Gravels, Paleozoic, Panorama Mountain, Pingston, Precambrian, Quaternary, Sable Pass, Sandstone, Schist, sedimentary, slump, terrane, Tertiary, Triassic, Usibelli Group, Volcanic, Volcanic, Yukon-Tanana
- Subjects
- Ecological Framework: Geology and Soils | Geomorphology | Glacial Features and Processes , Ecological Framework: Geology and Soils | Subsurface Geologic Processes | Seismic Activity