ASSEMBLY OF PANGEA: COMBINED PALEOMAGNETIC AND PALEOCLIMATIC APPROACH

Advances in Geophysics

Volumn 46, Issue C, 2003, Pages 199-236

  Lewandowski, Marek ^a  

^a POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Baltica; Gondwana; Iapetus; Laurentia; Paleogeography; Paleozoic; Pangea; Rheic; Theic; Tornquist

Indexed keywords

APPARENT POLAR WANDER PATH; GONDWANA; MAGNETIC FIELD; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOMAGNETISM; PALEOZOIC; PANGAEA;

EID: 32044440886     PISSN: 00652687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-2687(03)46003-2     Document Type: Review

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