Appalachian orogenesis: The role of repeated gravitational collapse

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 414, Issue 414, 2006, Pages 95-118

  Bell, T H ^a   Newman, R ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); STARS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

BULK COMPOSITIONS; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; EARTH'S SURFACE; FOLIATION DEVELOPMENT; GRAVITATIONAL COLLAPSE; INDIRECT COUPLINGS; MATRIX FOLIATIONS; STRUCTURAL EFFECT;

METAMORPHIC ROCKS;

AGE; ALLEGHANIAN; COLLAPSE; COLLISION; COUPLING; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; DEFORMATION; FOLIATION; OROGENY; PARTITIONING; PORPHYROBLAST; REACTIVATION;

APPALACHIANS; NEW ENGLAND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33751319548     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2006.2414(06)     Document Type: Article

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