Avalonian and Baltican terranes in the Moesian Platform (southern Europe, Romania, and Bulgaria) in the context of Caledonian terranes along the southwestern margin of the East European cratonp

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 423, Issue , 2007, Pages 375-400

  Oczlon, Martin S ^a   Seghedi, Antoneta ^b   Carrigan, Charles W ^c  

^a Aldridge Minerals Inc   (Germany)

^b GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF ROMANIA   (Romania)

^c OLIVET NAZARENE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Baltica; Caledonian; East Avalonia; Terrane accretion; Variscan

Indexed keywords

BALTICA; CALEDONIAN; EAST AVALONIA; TERRANE ACCRETION; VARISCAN;

ACCRETION; AVALONIA; BALTICA; CALEDONIAN OROGENY; CAMBRIAN; CARBONIFEROUS; CRATON; DEVONIAN; DISPLACEMENT; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; INDENTATION; TERRANE;

BULGARIA; DOBROGEA; EAST EUROPEAN CRATON; MOESIAN PLATFORM; ROMANIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 75749115212     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2007.2423(18)     Document Type: Conference Paper

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