Gondwanan faunal signatures from Early Palaeozoic terranes of Kazakhstan and Central Asia: Evidence and tectonic implications

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 325, Issue , 2009, Pages 23-64

  Popov, Leonid E ^a   Bassett, Michael G ^a   Zhemchuzhnikov, Vyacheslav G ^b   Holmer, Lars E ^c   Klishevich, Inna A ^d  

^a DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b Geostan JSC   (Kazakhstan)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; BRACHIOPOD; CRATON; FAUNA; GONDWANA; HISTORY OF GEOLOGY; ORDOVICIAN; OROGENY; PALEOZOIC; PLATE TECTONICS; RECONSTRUCTION; TECTONIC SETTING; TECTONIC STRUCTURE; TERRANE; TRILOBITE;

CENTRAL ASIA; CHINA; KAZAKHSTAN;

EID: 74949088548     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP325.3     Document Type: Article

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