Foreland-propagating Caledonian thrust systems in East Greenland

Memoir of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 202, Issue , 2008, Pages 169-199

  Leslie, A Graham ^a   Higgins, A K ^b  

^a Murchison House   (United Kingdom)

^b Centre for Star and Planet Formation   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Caledonian; Foreland propagating; Thrust units; Wnw transport

Indexed keywords

CALEDONIAN; FOLD-AND-THRUST BELTS; FORELAND PROPAGATING; GEOLOGICAL DOMAINS; OUT OF SEQUENCES; PALEOPROTEROZOIC; THRUST UNITS; WNW TRANSPORT;

PILES;

ARCHEAN; AUTOCHTHON; BALTICA; CALEDONIAN OROGENY; CAMBRIAN; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CONVERGENCE; DISPLACEMENT; ECLOGITE; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; FORELAND BASIN; LAURENTIA; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; PROTEROZOIC; SILURIAN; THRUST; THRUST FAULT;

ARCTIC; EAST GREENLAND; GREENLAND;

EID: 77949971332     PISSN: 00721069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2008.1202(07)     Document Type: Article

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