The Argentine Precordillera: its odyssey from the Laurentian Ouachita margin towards the Sierras Pampeanas of Gondwana

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 142, Issue , 1998, Pages 85-105

  Dickerson, Patricia Wood ^a   Keller, Martin ^b  

^a LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GONDWANA; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOZOIC; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

ARGENTINA;

ARGENTINA (FISH); LAURENTIA;

EID: 0032293584     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.142.01.05     Document Type: Article

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