Role of Pan-African events in the Circum-East Antarctic Orogen of East Gondwana: A critical overview

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 206, Issue , 2003, Pages 57-75

  Yoshida, Masaru ^a,b   Jacobs, Joachim ^c   Santosh, M ^d   Rajesh, H M ^a  

^a Gondwana Institute for Geology and Environment   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL STUDIES   (Sri Lanka)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^d KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GONDWANA; GRENVILLIAN OROGENY; PAN AFRICAN OROGENY; PROTEROZOIC; SUPERCONTINENT;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 0038109750     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2003.206.01.05     Document Type: Article

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