“…Recent thermochronology research in the Chugach-St. Elias Range to the south of the SCVF reveals a record of uplift and exhumation as a result of the progressive subduction, collision, and underthrusting of the Yakutat microplate beneath North America (Berger et al, 2008a(Berger et al, , 2008bMcAleer et al, 2009;Enkelmann et al, 2008Enkelmann et al, , 2010Arkle et al, 2013;Grabowski et al, 2013;Falkowski et al, 2014Falkowski et al, , 2016Falkowski and Enkelmann, 2016;Enkelmann et al, 2017;Dunn et al;. After the subduction of a spreading ridge in Eocene time, the eastern Chugach-western St. Elias range experienced relative quiescence until the onset of Yakutat subduction no earlier than 35 Ma (Enkelmann et al, 2010;Falkowski et al, 2014Falkowski et al, , 2016. Uplift and exhumation of the Chugach-St. Elias range accelerated in mid-Miocene, and the St. Elias syntaxis experienced rapid exhumation since ~5 Ma (Enkelmann et al, 2010;Grabowski et al, 2013;Falkowski et al, 2016).…”