Oligocene-Neogene lithospheric-scale reactivation of Mesozoic terrane accretionary structures in the Alaska Range suture zone, southern Alaska, USA: Reply

Abstract

Topics of discussion raised by Lowey (2021) include the correlation of ultramafic-intermediate intrusions hosted within the Clearwater metasediments/Dezadeash Formation and their displacement by the Denali fault. These topics were not main points of Waldien et al. (2021), but instead logical extrapolations of the information presented and synthesized therein. Here we re-emphasize the key findings of Waldien et al. (2021) and discuss only the relevant aspects of the ultramafic-intermediate intrusions and their displacement.