The Cadomian Orogeny and the opening of the Rheic Ocean: The diacrony of geotectonic processes constrained by LA-ICP-MS U-Pb zircon dating (Ossa-Morena and Saxo-Thuringian Zones, Iberian and Bohemian Massifs)

Tectonophysics

Volumn 461, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 21-43

  Linnemann, Ulf ^a   Pereira, M Francisco ^b   Jeffries, Teresa E ^c   Drost, Kerstin ^a,d   Gerdes, Axel ^e  

^a SENCKENBERG DEUTSCHES ENTOMOLOGISCHES INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^e GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Avalonia; Bohemian Massif; Cadomia; Cadomian Orogeny; Cambrian; Ediacaran; Gondwana; Iberian Massif; Neoproterozoic; Ordovician; Ossa Morena Zone; Peri Gondwana; Rheic Ocean; Saxo Thuringain Zone; Variscan Orogeny; West African Craton

Indexed keywords

ARC-CONTINENT COLLISION; AVALONIA; BACKARC BASIN; CADOMIAN OROGENY; CAMBRIAN; GONDWANA; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; OPHIOLITE; SUBDUCTION; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

BOHEMIAN MASSIF; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; IBERIAN MASSIF; IBERIAN PENINSULA; OSSA MORENA ZONE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 55549120526     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2008.05.002     Document Type: Article

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