Palaeozoic amalgamation of Central Europe: New results from recent geological and geophysical investigations

Tectonophysics

Volumn 360, Issue 1-4, 2002, Pages 5-21

  Winchester, J A ^a   Floyd, P A ^a   Crowley, Q G ^a   Piasecki, M A J ^a   Lee, M K ^a   Pharaoh, T C ^a   Williamson, P ^a   Banka, D ^a   Verniers, J ^a   Samuelsson, J ^a   Bayer, U ^a   Marotta, A M ^a   Lamarche J , ^a   Franke, W ^a   Dorr W ^a   Valverde Vaquero, P ^a   Giese, U ^a   Vecoli, M ^a   Thybo, H ^a   Laigle, M ^a   Scheck, M ^a   Maluski, H ^a   Marheine, D ^a   Noble, S R ^a   Paarish, R R ^a   Evans, J ^a   Timmerman, H ^a   Gerdes, A ^a   Guterch, A ^a   Grad, M ^a   Cwojdzinski, S ^a   Cymerman, Z ^a   Kozdroj, W ^a   Kryza, R ^a   Alexandrowski, P ^a   Mazur, S ^a   Stedra V ^a   Kotkova J ^a   Belka, Z ^a   Patocka F ^a   Kachlik, V ^a   more..

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^e JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^h ISTEM CNRS   (France)

ⁱ NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^j INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (Poland)

^k POLISH GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^l INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

^m CZECH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (Czech Republic)

ⁿ INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^o CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

more..

Author keywords

Armorican terrane assemblage; Avalonia; Bruno Silesia; East European craton

Indexed keywords

CRUST; DEFORMATION; GEOPHYSICS; PALEOZOIC; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

EUROPE; THE TRANS-EUROPEAN SUTURE ZONE;

EID: 0036450093     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(02)00344-X     Document Type: Article

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