The birth of the Rheic Ocean - Early Palaeozoic subsidence patterns and subsequent tectonic plate scenarios

Tectonophysics

Volumn 461, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 9-20

  von Raumer, Jürgen F ^a   Stampfli, Gérard M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Early Palaeozoic; Extensional crust; Gondwana margin; Palaeotethys; Rheic Ocean; Subsidence

Indexed keywords

CAMBRIAN; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GONDWANA; MARGINAL BASIN; OCEANIC CRUST; PALEOZOIC; PASSIVE MARGIN; RIFT ZONE; SUBDUCTION; SUBSIDENCE; TECTONIC PLATE; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION; TETHYS;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; NORTH CHINA BLOCK;

EID: 55549126453     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2008.04.012     Document Type: Article

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