The Tornquist Sea and Baltica-Avalonia docking

Tectonophysics

Volumn 362, Issue 1-4, 2003, Pages 67-82

  Torsvik, T H ^a,b,c   Rehnström, Emma F ^c  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Avalonia; Baltica; Collision; K bentonites; Palaeogeography; Remagnetisation; Tornquist sea

Indexed keywords

AVALONIA; BALTICA; BENTONITE; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOMAGNETISM; REMAGNETIZATION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

SWEDEN; TORNQUIST -TEISSEYRE ZONE;

EID: 0037421667     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(02)00631-5     Document Type: Article

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