Neoproterozoic-paleozoic geography and tectonics: Review, hypothesis, environmental speculation

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 16-42

  Dalziel, Ian W D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; EROSION; GONDWANA; LAURENTIA; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; PALEOZOIC; PROTEROZOIC; RODINIA; SUPERCONTINENT; TECTONICS; UPLIFT; EVOLUTION; PALAEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALAEOGEOGRAPHY; PALAEOZOIC; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION;

LONGITUDINAL CONTROL; SEA LEVEL; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; EARLY CRETACEOUS; SEALEVEL CHANGE; SINGLE-CELLED ORGANISMS; SPREADING RIDGE; SUBDUCTION ZONES; SUPERCONTINENTS; TECTONIC CHANGES;

TECTONICS;

EID: 0030811837     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1997)109<0016:ONPGAT>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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