Petrography of Ordovician and Silurian sediments in the western irish Caledonides: Tracers of a short-lived Ordovician continent-arc collision orogeny and the evolution of the Laurentian Appalachian-Caledonian margin

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 164, Issue , 2000, Pages 55-107

  Dewey, John ^a   Mange, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

ARC-CONTINENT COLLISION; ARENIGIAN; DALRADIAN; HEAVY MINERAL; ISLAND ARC; LAURENTIA; LLANVIRNIAN; OPHIOLITE; ORDOVICIAN; OROGENY; PETROGRAPHY; PLATE CONVERGENCE; SILURIAN; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

IRELAND;

EID: 0034115643     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.164.01.05     Document Type: Article

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