The gyroscopic Earth and its role in supercontinent and metallogenic cycles

Ore Geology Reviews

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 387-398

  Yakubchuk, Alexander ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Global metallogeny; Global tectonics; Gyroscopic Earth

Indexed keywords

BEFORE AND AFTER; CENOZOIC; COLUMBIA; CONTINENTAL CRUSTS; FIRST ORDERS; GLOBAL METALLOGENY; GLOBAL TECTONICS; GYROSCOPIC EARTH; LIQUID CORES; MAGNETIC CURRENTS; MANTLE CONVECTION; MINERAL DEPOSITS; NEOPROTEROZOIC; OCEANIC HEMISPHERE; OROGENS; REASSEMBLY; REBALANCING; RODINIA; SOLID SHELLS; SUPERCONTINENT; SUPERCONTINENTS; TRANSITION ZONES;

MINERAL RESOURCES; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; MINING; SILICA; SILICATE MINERALS; TECTONICS;

GALLIUM;

CENOZOIC; CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CONTINENTAL CRUST; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; MANTLE CONVECTION; METALLOGENESIS; PLATE TECTONICS; POLAR WANDERING; PROTEROZOIC; RECONSTRUCTION; RODINIA; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TRANSITION ZONE;

EID: 53549090439     PISSN: 01691368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.oregeorev.2008.04.005     Document Type: Article

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