THERMAL EVOLUTION OF SEDIMENTARY BASINS IN ALASKA

An interpretive report of thermal maturity-patterns in Alaska 
was published in paper form in 1996 as USGS Bulletin 2142. 
This report, consisting of six papers by both USGS and non-
USGS authors, presented detailed studies of most of the major 
sedimentary-basin types found in Alaska: a forearc basin 
(Alaskan Peninsula), a large foreland basin (Colville Basin), 
and a tectonically dissected basin fragment (Kandik "basin"). 
In addition to the vitrinite-reflectance and conodont color-
alteration-index data included elsewhere on this CD-ROM, 
these reports made use of many other varieties of thermal-
maturity data, including fluid-inclusion, oxygen-isotope, 
illite crystallinity, apatite fission-track, and heat-flow 
data.

This directory contains a searchable PDF version of this 
report that it is extensively cross-linked to allow for easy
navigation.