The Precambrian Terranes of Yemen and their Correlation with those of Saudi Arabia and Somalia: Implications for the Accretion of Gondwana

Gondwana Research

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 206-207

  Windley, Brian F ^a   Whitehouse, Martin J ^b   Stoeser, Douglas B ^c   Al Khirbash, Salah ^d   Ba Bttat, Mahfood A O ^e   Al Ghotbah, Ahmed ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d SANA A UNIVERSITY   (Yemen)

^e KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; GONDWANA; PRECAMBRIAN; TERRANE;

SAUDI ARABIA; SOMALIA; YEMEN;

EID: 0038805308     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1342-937X(05)70697-3     Document Type: Article

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