Easternmost Avalonian and Armorican-Cadomian terranes of central Europe and Caledonian-Variscan evolution of the polydeformed Krakow mobile belt: Geological constraints

Tectonophysics

Volumn 302, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 133-157

  Unrug, Raphael ^a   Harańczyk, Czesław ^b   Chocyk Jamińska, Marzena ^c  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

Baltica; Cadomian orogeny; Caledonides; Central Europe; Gondwana; Tectonostratigraphic terranes; Variscides

Indexed keywords

BALTICA; CADOMIAN OROGENY; CALEDONIAN OROGENY; GONDWANA; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; TERRANE;

POLAND;

EID: 0345086439     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(98)00278-9     Document Type: Article

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