Terrane history of the Canadian Cordillera: Estimating amounts of latitudinal displacement and rotation of Wrangellia and Stikinia

Geological Magazine

Volumn 136, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 481-492

  Aberhan, Martin ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTION AND BIODIVERSITY SCIENCE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOCHTHON; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CORDILLERA; TECTONIC ROTATION; TERRANE;

CANADA;

BIVALVIA;

EID: 0033396299     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S001675689900299X     Document Type: Article

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