Himalayan-type indenter-escape tectonics model for the southern part of the late Neoproterozoic-early Paleozoic East African-Antarctic orogen

Geology

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 721-724

  Jacobs, Joachim ^a   Thomas, Robert J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Delamination; East African Antarctic orogen; Gondwana; Shear zone; Tectonic escape

Indexed keywords

OROGENIC BELTS; TECTONICS MODELS; EARLY PALEOZOIC; EAST AFRICANS; EAST ANTARCTICA; GONDWANA; GONDWANA RECONSTRUCTION; LATE NEOPROTEROZOIC; SHEAR ZONE; TECTONIC MODELS;

DELAMINATION; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; PLANETS; ROCKS; TECTONICS; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

COLLISION ZONE; DELAMINATION; GONDWANA; OROGENIC BELT; PLATE TECTONICS; PROTEROZOIC; UNROOFING; COLLISION; MANTLE; MICROPLATE; ORDOVICIAN; OROGENY; PALEOZOIC; REWORKING; SHEAR ZONE; TECTONICS; TRANSPRESSION;

AFRICA; ANTARCTICA; EAST AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; COATS LAND; EAST ANTARCTICA; QUEEN MAUD LAND; SOUTHERN AFRICA;

EID: 4344563027     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G20516.1     Document Type: Article

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