Global setting of Ordovician orogenesis

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 466, Issue , 2010, Pages 1-11

  Van Staal, Cees R ^a   Hatcher, Robert D ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGY;

BACK-ARC; CONTINENT-CONTINENT COLLISIONS; GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION; GLOBAL DYNAMICS; GLOBAL SETTINGS; LOCALISED; ORDOVICIAN; OROGENIC BELTS; SIBERIA; SUBDUCTION INITIATION;

METALS;

ACCRETION; BALTICA; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; GONDWANA; LAURENTIA; MARGINAL BASIN; ORDOVICIAN; OROGENIC BELT; OROGENY; SUBDUCTION;

EID: 78650930557     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2010.2466(01)     Document Type: Article

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