The Tintina Fault is a large right-lateral
strike-slip fault
In geology, a fault is a planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock across which there has been significant displacement as a result of rock-mass movements. Large faults within Earth's crust result from the action of plate tectonic ...
in western
North America
North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere and almost entirely within the Western Hemisphere. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Car ...
, extending from northwestern
British Columbia,
Canada to the centre of the
U.S. state of
Alaska. It represents the
Yukon continuum between the
Rocky Mountain Trench
The Rocky Mountain Trench, also known as the Valley of a Thousand Peaks or simply the Trench, is a large valley on the western side of the northern part of North America's Rocky Mountains. The Trench is both visually and cartographically a s ...
in the northern
United States and the Kaltag Fault in Alaska.
Mineral deposits of the Tanana - Yukon Uplands: A Summary Report
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See also
* Denali Fault
*Rocky Mountain Trench
The Rocky Mountain Trench, also known as the Valley of a Thousand Peaks or simply the Trench, is a large valley on the western side of the northern part of North America's Rocky Mountains. The Trench is both visually and cartographically a s ...
* Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province
References
Seismic faults of Canada
Seismic faults of Alaska
Geology of British Columbia
Geology of Yukon
Strike-slip faults
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