Tectonic Evolution of the Itremo Region (Central Madagascar) and Implications for Gondwana Assembly

Gondwana Research

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 165-168

  Fernandez, Alain ^a   Huber, Sarah ^a   Schreurs, Guido ^a   Villa, Igor ^a   Rakotondrazafy, Michel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTANANARIVO   (Madagascar)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GONDWANA; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

MADAGASCAR;

EID: 0013445709     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1342-937X(05)70678-X     Document Type: Article

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