Pan-African Extensional Collapse Along the Gondwana Suture

Gondwana Research

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 188-191

  Santosh, M ^a   Yoshida, M ^b  

^a KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAPSE; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GONDWANA; PLATE CONVERGENCE; SUTURE ZONE;

EID: 0038467580     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1342-937X(05)70690-0     Document Type: Article

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