Carboniferous age for the East Greenland "Devonian" basin: Paleomagnetic and isotopic constraints on age, stratigraphy, and plate reconstructions: Comment

Geology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 284-285

  Stemmerik, Lars ^a   Bendix Almgreen, Svend Erik ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; CARBONIFEROUS; DEVONIAN; GEOCHRONOLOGY; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; PALEOMAGNETISM; PLATE TECTONICS; RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 0001188133     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1998)026<0284:CAFTEG>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Letter

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