The Scandinavian Caledonides: Event chronology, palaeogeographic settings and likely modern analogues

Tectonophysics

Volumn 365, Issue 1-4, 2003, Pages 283-299

  Roberts, David ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Baltica; Dyke swarms; Iapetus Ocean; Orogenic events; Scandinavian Caledonides; Southwest Pacific Ocean

Indexed keywords

CALEDONIAN OROGENY; DIKE SWARM; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; IAPETUS OCEAN; OROGENY; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

CALEDONIDES; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 0038708381     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(03)00026-X     Document Type: Article

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