The South Connemara Group reinterpreted: A subduction-accretion complex in the Caledonides of Galway Bay, western Ireland

Journal of Geodynamics

Volumn 37, Issue 3-5, 2004, Pages 513-529

  Ryan, Paul D ^a   Dewey, John F ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVALONIA; CALEDONIAN OROGENY; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; IAPETUS OCEAN; LAURENTIA; ORDOVICIAN; SILURIAN; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GALWAY BAY; IRELAND; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 2142640314     PISSN: 02643707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jog.2004.02.018     Document Type: Article

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