Northern Pacific orogens: A collage of terranes and history of its formation

Geologiya i Geofizika

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1563-1574

  Parfenov, L M ^a   Nokleberg, W J ^a   Monger, J W H ^a   Norton, I O ^a   Stone, D B ^a   Fujita, K ^a   Khanchuk, A I ^a   Scholl, D W ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Northern Pacific framing; Orogenic belts; Palinspastic maps; Terrane; Terrane analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001100763     PISSN: 00167886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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