Carbonate formations and early NW-directed thrusting in the highest Allochthons of the Norwegian Caledonides: Evidence of Laurentian ancestry

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 159, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 117-120

  Roberts, D ^a   Melezhik, V M ^a   Heldal, T ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Caledonides; Carbonate rocks; Norway; Scandian orogeny; Taconian orogeny

Indexed keywords

ALLOCHTHON; CARBONATE ROCK; OROGENY; PALEOZOIC; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHY; THRUST;

NORWAY;

EID: 0036187315     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-764901-128     Document Type: Article

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