Stratigraphic record of the early mesozoic breakup of Pangea in the laurasia-gondwana rift system

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 25, Issue , 1997, Pages 337-401

  Olsen, Paul E ^a  

^a Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University   (United States)

Author keywords

Basalts; Jurassic; Lakes; Milankovitch cycles; Triassic

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; LAKE SEDIMENT; MESOZOIC; MILANKOVITCH CYCLE; PANGAEA; RIFT BASIN;

MOROCCO; NORTH AMERICA; USA, NEWARK BASIN;

EID: 0030859842     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.earth.25.1.337     Document Type: Article

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