A review of the Irish crustal structure and signatures from the Caledonian and Variscan Orogenies

Terra Nova

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 111-120

  Landes, Michael ^a   Ritter, J R R ^a   Readman, P W ^b   O'Reilly, B M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b DUBLIN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALEDONIAN OROGENY; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; IRELAND; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 17744363945     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2004.00590.x     Document Type: Review

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