The Cambrian-Silurian tectonic evolution of the northern Appalachians and British Caledonides: history of a complex, west and southwest Pacific- type segment of Iapetus

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 143, Issue , 1998, Pages 199-242

  Van Staal, C R ^a   Dewey, J F ^b   Niocaill, C Mac ^b   Mckerrow, W S ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALEDONIAN OROGENY; CAMBRIAN; ORDOVICIAN; SILURIAN; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

IRELAND; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

LAURENTIA; VICTORIA;

EID: 0032301726     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.143.01.17     Document Type: Article

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