Timing of the Avalonia-Baltica plate convergence as inferred from palaeogeographic and stratigraphic data of chitinozoan assemblages in west Pomerania, northern Poland

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 201, Issue , 2002, Pages 95-113

  Samuelsson, Joakim ^a,b,c   Vecoli, Marco ^d   Bednarczyk, Wiesław S ^e   Verniers, Jacques ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^e INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVALONIA; BALTICA; CARADOCIAN; CONVERGENT MARGIN; MICROFOSSIL; PALEOZOIC; PLATE TECTONICS;

POLAND;

CHITINOZOA;

EID: 12244260755     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2002.201.01.05     Document Type: Article

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