Sculpted by Water, Elevated by Earthquakes: The Coastal Landscape of Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska
Witter RC, LeWinter A, Bender AM, Glennie C, Finnegan D. Sculpted by Water, Elevated by Earthquakes: The Coastal Landscape of Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska. Research Permit and Reporting System
Within Glacier Bay National Park in southeastern Alaska, the Fairweather Fault marks the tectonically active boundary between the North American Plate and the Yakutat microplate. Thousands to millions of years of tectonic plate motion, including the 1958, magnitude 7.8 Lituya Bay earthquake, raised and shifted the ground surface across the Fairweather Fault, while rivers, glaciers and ocean waves eroded and sculpted the surrounding landscape along the Gulf of Alaska coast.
- Type
- Unpublished Report
- Authors
- Witter, Robert; LeWinter, Adam; Bender, Adrian; Glennie, Craig; Finnegan, David
- Publisher
- Research Permit and Reporting System
- Units
- GLBA