Pampean orogen: An intraplate component of Early Paleozoic deformation?

Gondwana Research

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 115-124

  Dickerson, Patricia Wood ^a  

^a NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancestral Rocky Mountains; Intraplate orogenesis; Pampean orogeny; South America; Tien Shan

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DEFORMATION; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; OROGENY; PALEOZOIC; PLATE MOTION; PLATE TECTONICS; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

RIO DE LA PLATA CRATON;

EID: 0742305246     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1342-937X(05)70310-5     Document Type: Article

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