Avalon: Insular continent by the latest Precambrian

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 304, Issue , 1996, Pages 29-63

  Landing, Ed ^a  

^a New York State Geological Survey   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCES; HIGHER LATITUDES; LITHO-STRATIGRAPHIC; LOWER CAMBRIANS; MASSACHUSETTS; NORTH AMERICAN; PROTEROZOIC; RHODE ISLAND;

ANIMALS;

BALTICA; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; DEPOCENTER; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; GONDWANA; INSULATION; ORDOVICIAN; PRECAMBRIAN-CAMBRIAN BOUNDARY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TREMADOCIAN;

ENGLAND; RHODE ISLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70449737449     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2304-3.29     Document Type: Article

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