Palaeontological evidence bearing on global Ordovician-Silurian continental reconstructions

Earth-Science Reviews

Volumn 61, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 245-307

  Fortey, Richard A ^a   Cocks, L Robin M ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Baltica; Brachiopods; Gondwana; Iapetus Ocean; Kazakhstan; Laurentia; Ordovician; Precordillera; Siberia; Silurian; Terranes; Trilobites

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; GONDWANA; IAPETUS OCEAN; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOLATITUDE; PALEONTOLOGY; SILURIAN; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 0037647799     PISSN: 00128252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-8252(02)00115-0     Document Type: Article

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