Global mass wasting during the Middle Ordovician: Meteoritic trigger or plate-tectonic environment?

Gondwana Research

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 535-541

  Meinhold, Guido ^a   Arslan, Arzu ^b   Lehnert, Oliver ^c,d,e   Stampfli, Gérard M ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^d CZECH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (Czech Republic)

^e INSTITUTE OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (Poland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Iapetus Ocean; Mass wasting; Meteorite impact; Ordovician; Plate tectonics

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; GONDWANA; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; ORDOVICIAN; PLATE MOTION; PLATE TECTONICS; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING;

EID: 78751706164     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2010.07.001     Document Type: Article

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