Rodinia to Gondwana: The geodynamic map of Gondwana supercontinent assembly

GSA Today

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1997, Pages

  Unrug, Raphael ^a  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GONDWANA; LAURENTIA; PROTEROZOIC; RODINIA; SUPERCONTINENT;

EID: 0030797744     PISSN: 10525173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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