Gondwana paleogeography from assembly to breakup - A 500 m.y. odyssey

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 441, Issue , 2008, Pages 1-28

  Blakey, Ronald C ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Continental rifting; Glaciation; Gondwana; Paleogeography; Plate tectonics

Indexed keywords

STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS;

CONTINENTAL RIFTING; GLACIATION; GONDWANA; LATE PALEOZOIC ICE AGE; OROGENIC EVENTS; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PROTEROZOIC; STRATIGRAPHIC RECORDS;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; FRAGMENTATION; GLACIATION; GONDWANA; MESOZOIC; OROGENY; PALEOGENE; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOZOIC; PHANEROZOIC; PLATE TECTONICS; PLEISTOCENE; PROTEROZOIC; RIFTING; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

CHINA; SPAIN;

EID: 75249092986     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2008.2441(01)     Document Type: Article

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