Terminal suturing of Gondwana and the onset of the Ross-Delamerian Orogeny: The cause and effect of an Early Cambrian reconfiguration of plate motions

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 219, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 35-48

  Boger, S D ^a   Miller, J McL ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Australia; Cambrian; Delamerian; Gondwana; Kuunga; Plate reorganisation; Ross; Suturing; Tyennan

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; DELAMERIAN OROGENY; GONDWANA; OROGENIC BELT; PLATE MOTION; PLATE TECTONICS; SUTURE ZONE;

ANTARCTICA; AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 1342268068     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(03)00692-7     Document Type: Article

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