The East Continent Rift Complex: Evidence and conclusions

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 312, Issue , 1997, Pages 253-266

  Stark, T Joshua ^a  

^a Equitable Resources Energy Company   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STRATIGRAPHY;

PALEOZOIC STRATA; REMOBILIZATION; RIFT SYSTEMS; STRATIGRAPHIC DEVELOPMENT;

DEFORMATION;

COLLISION; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; PALEOZOIC; REMOBILIZATION;

MIDCONTINENT RIFT;

EID: 0002223138     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2312-4.253     Document Type: Article

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