The uppermost allochthon in the scandinavian caledonides: From a laurentian ancestry through taconian orogeny to scandian crustal growth on Baltica

Memoir of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 200, Issue , 2007, Pages 357-377

  Roberts, David ^a   Nordgulen, Øystein ^a   Melezhik, Victor ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON ORES;

CARBONATE ROCK; IRON-ORE FORMATION; LATE ORDOVICIAN; LITHO-STRATIGRAPHIC; OBLIQUE COLLISION; OROGENIC WEDGE; PROMINENT FEATURES; SLOPE ENVIRONMENTS;

LITHOLOGY;

ALLOCHTHON; ANCESTRY; BALTICA; CALEDONIAN OROGENY; CARBONATE ROCK; GRANITOID; IRON ORE; LAURENTIA; NAPPE; ORDOVICIAN; PLATE MOTION; RIPHEAN; SILURIAN; TACONIC OROGENY;

CALEDONIDES; NORWAY;

EID: 34548398942     PISSN: 00721069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2007.1200(18)     Document Type: Conference Paper

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