The Late Ordovician - Middle Devonian Gaspé Belt in eastern Canada - Recent advances

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 483-487

  Lavoie, Denis ^a   Malo, Michel ^b   Tremblay, Alain ^c  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b CENTRE EAU TERRE ENVIRONNEMENT   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

CONTINENTAL MARGINS; MULTI-ORGANIZATION RESEARCH;

EARTH SCIENCES;

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DEVONIAN; LAURENTIA; ORDOVICIAN; OROGENIC BELT; SILURIAN; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

APPALACHIANS; CANADA; GASPE PENINSULA; NORTH AMERICA; QUEBEC;

EID: 4344604122     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/e04-033     Document Type: Article

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