Late Palaeozoic intra- and pericratonic basins on the East European Craton and its margins

Geological Society Memoir

Volumn 32, Issue , 2006, Pages 463-479

  Stephenson, Randell A ^a   Yegorova, T ^b   Brunet, M F ^c   Stovba, S ^d   Wilson, M ^e   Starostenko, V ^b   Saintot, Aline ^a,f   Kusznir, N ^g  

^a Netherlands Research Centre for Integrated Solid Earth Science ISES   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (Ukraine)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d Naukanaftogaz Scientific Research Institute of National Joint Stock Company Naftogaz of Ukraine   (Ukraine)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^f GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRATON; DEVONIAN-CARBONIFEROUS BOUNDARY; INTRACRATONIC BASIN; MAGMATISM; RIFTING; UPLIFT;

CASPIAN BASIN; DNIEPER-DONETS BASIN; EURASIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; RUSSIAN PLATFORM; TIMAN-PECHORA BASIN;

EID: 33846057898     PISSN: 04354052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.MEM.2006.032.01.29     Document Type: Review

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