The collapse of the Saint-Lawrence Platform: Iapetus or Atlantic opening? Insights from palaeostress reconstructions in the region of Quebec City (Canada);L'effondrement de la plate-forme du Saint-Laurent: Ouverture de Iapetus ou de l'Atlantique? Apport de la reconstitution des paléocontraintes dans la région de Québec (Canada)

Comptes Rendus de l'Academie de Sciences - Serie IIa: Sciences de la Terre et des Planetes

Volumn 333, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 171-178

  Rocher, Muriel ^a,b   Tremblay, Alain ^a  

^a Centre Géoscientifique de Québec   (Canada)

^b Centre des Sciences de la Terre   (France)

Author keywords

Extension; Faults; Graben; Palaeostresses; Passive margin; Quebec

Indexed keywords

FAULTING; IAPETUS OCEAN; MESOZOIC; PALEOZOIC; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

CANADA; QUEBEC; QUEBEC CITY;

CHRISTIA;

EID: 0034893713     PISSN: 12518050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1251-8050(01)01610-X     Document Type: Article

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