A second look at the geologic map of China: The "sloss approach"

International Geology Review

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 119-132

  Vermeesch, Pieter ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; GIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION;

CHINA;

EID: 0043199860     PISSN: 00206814     EISSN: 19382839     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0020-6814.45.2.119     Document Type: Article

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