The Vendian-Early Palaeozoic sedimentary basins of the East European Craton

Geological Society Memoir

Volumn 32, Issue , 2006, Pages 449-462

  Sliaupa, Saulius ^a   Fokin, Pavel ^b   Lazauskiene, Jurga ^a   Stephenson, Randell A ^c  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRATON; GEODYNAMICS; PALEOZOIC; PASSIVE MARGIN; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEDIMENTATION; VENDIAN;

EID: 33846055462     PISSN: 04354052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.MEM.2006.032.01.28     Document Type: Article

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