Documenting Late Proterzoic rifting in the Ocoee basin, western Blue Ridge, North Carolina

Southeastern Geology

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 37-50

  Montes, Camilo ^a   Hatcher Jr , Robert D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEROZOIC; RIFTING;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033368847     PISSN: 00383678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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