Palaeocurrent data from the Kalak Nappe Complex, northern Norway: A key element in models of terrane affiliation

Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 319-328

  Roberts, David ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

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AUTOCHTHON; FACIES; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; MODELING; NAPPE; PALEOCURRENT; TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHY; TERRANE;

BALTIC SHIELD; EURASIA; EUROPE; FINNMARK; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 36249024800     PISSN: 0029196X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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