Chapter 29 Plate Tectonics and Heavy Mineral Suites of Modern Sands

Developments in Sedimentology

Volumn 58, Issue , 2007, Pages 741-763

  Garzanti, Eduardo ^a   Andò, Sergio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Continental rifts; Cratons; Heavy minerals; Magmatic arcs; Orogenic belts; Plate tectonics

Indexed keywords

EID: 44349131434     PISSN: 00704571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0070-4571(07)58029-5     Document Type: Review

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