Grenvillian and Caledonian evolution of eastern Svalbard - A tale of two orogenies

Terra Nova

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 317-325

  Johansson, Åke ^a   Gee, David G ^b   Larionov, Alexander N ^a   Ohta, Yoshihide ^c   Tebenkov, Alexander M ^d,e  

^a SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^d Geological Expedition   (Russian Federation)

^e A P KARPINSKY RUSSIAN GEOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALEDONIAN OROGENY; CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; GRENVILLIAN OROGENY;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN; WORLD;

EID: 27844473227     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: 13653121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2005.00616.x     Document Type: Article

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