Lessons from the foreland basin: Northern appalachian basin perspectives on the acadian orogeny

Memoir of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 206, Issue , 2010, Pages 251-282

  Ver Straeten, Charles A ^a  

^a NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ACADIAN OROGENY; BASIN FILL; CHRONOLOGY; CONGLOMERATE; EXPLOSIVE VOLCANISM; FOREARC BASIN; FORELAND BASIN; IGNEOUS ROCK; MAGMATISM; OROGENY; SEDIMENTATION; STRATIGRAPHY; TEPHRA; TOPOGRAPHY; UPLIFT;

APPALACHIAN BASIN; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79960087122     PISSN: 00721069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2010.1206(12)     Document Type: Review

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