Cambrian-Silurian development of the Laurentian margin of the Iapetus Ocean in Greenland and related areas

Memoir of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 202, Issue , 2008, Pages 137-167

  Smith, M Paul ^a   Rasmussen, Jan Audun ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Basins; Cambrian; Greenland; Ordovician; Svalbard; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; DEPOSITION; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS;

BASINS; CAMBRIANS; GREENLAND; ORDOVICIAN; SVALBARD;

SEDIMENTS;

ALLOCHTHON; AUTOCHTHON; CALEDONIAN OROGENY; CAMBRIAN; CARBONATE PLATFORM; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DEPOSITION; IAPETUS OCEAN; LAURENTIA; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; SEDIMENT THICKNESS; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE BOUNDARY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SILURIAN; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TERRANE; UNCONFORMITY;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

FRANKLINIA;

EID: 77950003405     PISSN: 00721069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2008.1202(06)     Document Type: Article

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