COVERMount Fairweather (15,300 ft or 4,663 m) in the far distance beyond the peaks and glaciers that surround (and conceal) John Hopkins Inlet. The photo was taken from the complex metamorphosed Paleozoic rocks and Cretaceous plutons east of Reid Inlet looking across the Tarr Inlet suture zone and over the dominant metamorphosed Mesozoic rocks of the Fairweather Range. Mount Fairweather is underlain by layered gabbroic rocks of Tertiary age. Although this information product, for the most part, is in the public domain, it also may contain copyrighted materials as noted in the text. Permission to reproduce copyrighted items must be secured from the copyright owner.
Geochronology of Plutonic Rocks and their Tectonic Terranes in Glacier Bay
AbstractWe have identified six major belts and two nonbelt occurrences of plutonic rocks in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve and characterized them on the basis of geologic mapping, igneous petrology, geochemistry, and isotopic dating. The six plutonic belts and two other occurrences are, from oldest to youngest: (1)