Early Cambrian paleogeography and tectonic history: A biogeographic approach

Geology

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1039-1042

  Lieberman, Bruce S ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; GEOLOGIC MODELS; RADIATION EFFECTS; TECTONICS;

BIOGEOGRAPHIC REGIONS; BIOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS; CONTINENTAL BREAK-UP; DOMINANT PROCESS; GEOPHYSICAL MODELS; SUPERCONTINENTS; TECTONIC EVENTS; TECTONIC HISTORY;

SEA LEVEL;

BALTICA; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CAMBRIAN; CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; CRATON; LAURENTIA; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; RIFTING; RODINIA; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TECTONICS; PALAEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALAEOGEOGRAPHY;

SIBERIA;

EID: 0031429804     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1997)025<1039:ECPATH>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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