Neoproterozoic orogeny along the margin of Rodinia: Valhalla orogen, North Atlantic

Geology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 99-102

  Cawood, Peter A ^a   Strachan, Rob ^b   Cutts, Kathryn ^c   Kinny, Peter D ^d   Hand, Martin ^c   Pisarevsky, Sergei ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^d CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMAZONIA; CLOCKWISE ROTATION; CRUSTAL THICKENINGS; GREENLAND; IGNEOUS ACTIVITY; LAURENTIAN; NEOPROTEROZOIC; NORTH ATLANTIC; OCEAN BASINS; OROGENIC EVENTS; RODINIA; SCOTLAND; SVALBARD;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; COLLISION ZONE; CRUSTAL THICKENING; OROGENY; PROTEROZOIC; RODINIA; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SEDIMENTATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 77950163621     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G30450.1     Document Type: Article

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