The evolution of the southern margin of Eastern Europe (Eastern European and Scythian platforms) from the latest Precambrian-Early Palaeozoic to the Early Cretaceous

Geological Society Memoir

Volumn 32, Issue , 2006, Pages 481-505

  Saintot, Aline ^a,b   Stephenson, Randell A ^a   Stovba, Sergiy ^c   Brunet, Marie Françoise ^d   Yegorova, Tamara ^e   Starostenko, Vitaly ^e  

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

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^c Naukanaftogaz   (Ukraine)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRETACEOUS; OROGENIC BELT; PALEOZOIC; PRECAMBRIAN; RIFTING; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

DNIEPER-DONETS BASIN; EASTERN EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; PRIPYAT RIVER; RUSSIAN PLATFORM;

EID: 33846080144     PISSN: 04354052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.MEM.2006.032.01.30     Document Type: Article

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