New insights into the geology of high-grade Caledonian marbles based on isotope chemostratigraphy

Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 209-242

  Melezhik, Victor A ^a   Zwaan, Bouke K ^a   Motuza, Gedeminas ^b   Roberts, David ^a   Solli, Arne ^a   Fallick, Anthony E ^c   Gorokhov, Igor M ^d   Kusnetzov, Anton B ^d  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^b VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^c SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^d INSTITUTE OF PRECAMBRIAN GEOLOGY AND GEOCHRONOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALEDONIAN OROGENY; CARBON ISOTOPE; CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; GEOLOGY; MARBLE; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE;

EID: 33644767494     PISSN: 0029196X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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