From the early Paleozoic platforms of Baltica and Laurentia to the Caledonide Orogen of Scandinavia and Greenland

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Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 44-51

  Gee, David G ^a   Fossen, Haakon ^b   Henriksen, Neils ^c   Higgins, Anthony K ^c  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALEDONIAN OROGENY; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DEFORMATION; EXHUMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULTING; INTRAMONTANE BASIN; SILURIAN; SUBDUCTION; TERRANE;

ARCTIC; CANADA; ELLESMERE ISLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; GREENLAND; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; NUNAVUT; QUEEN ELIZABETH ISLANDS; SCANDINAVIA; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN; SWEDEN;

EID: 44649118732     PISSN: 07053797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18814/epiiugs/2008/v31i1/007     Document Type: Conference Paper

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