Sedimentary basin and detrital zircon record along East Laurentia and Baltica during assembly and breakup of Rodinia

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 164, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 257-275

  Cawood, Peter A ^a   Nemchin, Alexander A ^b   Strachan, Rob ^c   Prave, Tony ^d   Krabbendam, Maarten ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^e BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BALTICA; BASIN EVOLUTION; COLLISION ZONE; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; LAURENTIA; MAGMATISM; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; RODINIA; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; ZIRCON;

EID: 33947378280     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492006-115     Document Type: Review

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