Assembly and dispersal of Pangea: Large-scale tectonic effects on coeval deposition of North American, marine, epicontinental, black shales

Journal of Geodynamics

Volumn 23, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 287-309

  Ettensohn, Frank R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; BLACK SHALE; MESOZOIC; PALAEOGEOGRAPHY; PALAEOZOIC; PANGAEA; TECTONICS;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0030815398     PISSN: 02643707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0264-3707(96)00045-2     Document Type: Article

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