. The Eastern Bering Sea Shelf : oceanography and resources / edited by Donald W. Hood and John A. Calder . SIBERIA Figure 18-4. Latest Cretaceous tectonic framework of the Bering Strait region. (3) In late Cretaceous and early Tertiary time (Fig. 18-5) thrusting ceased, and a trans-current faulting phase began. Strike-slip movement occurred on the Kobuk and Kaltag faults, possibly localized along pre-existing faults or zones of weakness, and the wedge-like region between these faults (Seward Peninsula and Yukon-Koyukuk basin) moved rela- tively eastward into north-central Alaska. The thrust f
. The Eastern Bering Sea Shelf : oceanography and resources / edited by Donald W. Hood and John A. Calder . SIBERIA Figure 18-4. Latest Cretaceous tectonic framework of the Bering Strait region. (3) In late Cretaceous and early Tertiary time (Fig. 18-5) thrusting ceased, and a trans-current faulting phase began. Strike-slip movement occurred on the Kobuk and Kaltag faults, possibly localized along pre-existing faults or zones of weakness, and the wedge-like region between these faults (Seward Peninsula and Yukon-Koyukuk basin) moved rela- tively eastward into north-central Alaska. The thrust front extending from Seward Peninsula to Wrangel Island was offset along the offshore exten- sion of the Kobuk fault (Fig. 18-5). The oroclinal pair in the Richardson Mountains far to the east may have been formed at this time as a result of
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