Comparative analysis of the geological evolution of the northern and southern Appalachian orogen: Late Ordovician-Permian

Memoir of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 206, Issue , 2010, Pages 51-69

  Hibbard, James P ^a   Van Staal, Cees R ^b   Rankin, Douglas W ^c  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPALACHIAN OROGEN; COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; EARLY PALEOZOIC; EVOLUTIONARY PATH; GEOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; LATE ORDOVICIAN; NORTHERN APPALACHIANS; SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS;

ACCRETION; CARBONIFEROUS; COLLISION ZONE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; LAURENTIA; PALEOZOIC; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC ROTATION; TECTONIC STRUCTURE;

SUWANNEE BASIN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79952067513     PISSN: 00721069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2010.1206(03)     Document Type: Article

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