Proterozoic history of the Borborema province (NE Brazil): Correlations with neighboring cratons and Pan-African belts and implications for the evolution of western Gondwana

Tectonics

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2003, Pages

  Neves, Sérgio Pacheco ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Atlantica supercontinent; Neoproterozoic belts; Western Gondwana

Indexed keywords

CRATON; GONDWANA; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PROTEROZOIC; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONOPHYSICS;

BORBOREMA PROVINCE; BRAZIL;

EID: 0344236357     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001TC001352     Document Type: Article

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