Introduction: Middle Proterozoic to Cambrian rifting, central North America

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 312, Issue , 1997, Pages 1-5

  Ojakangas, Richard W ^a   Dickas, Albert B ^b   Green, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SUPERIOR   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMBRIAN; PROTEROZOIC; RIFTING;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0004561021     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2312-4.1     Document Type: Review

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