Neoproterozoic - Lower Palaeozoic stratigraphical relationships in the marginal thin-skinned thrust belt of the East Greenland Caledonides: Comparisons with the foreland in Scotland

Geological Magazine

Volumn 138, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 143-160

  Higgins, A K ^a   Leslie, A G ^b   Smith, M P ^c  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CAMBRO-ORDOVICIAN; CONTINUOUS SEDIMENTATION; FACIES BELT; LOWER PALAEOZOIC; NEOPROTEROZOIC; THRUST BELTS; TORRIDONIAN;

CALEDONIAN OROGENY; IAPETUS OCEAN; OROGENIC BELT; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; THRUST;

CALEDONIDES; GREENLAND;

EID: 0035053899     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016756801005076     Document Type: Article

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