The Appalachian orogen: A brief summary

Memoir of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 206, Issue , 2010, Pages 1-19

  Hatcher, Robert D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPALACHIAN OROGEN; APPALACHIANS; BRITAIN; LAURENTIAN; MISSISSIPPIANS; OROGENS; PALEOZOIC; RIFTED MARGINS; RODINIA; WILSON CYCLE;

GEOLOGY;

COALESCENCE; COLLISION ZONE; CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; OROGENY; PALEOZOIC; PERMIAN; PROTEROZOIC; RIFTING; RODINIA; SILURIAN; TRANSPRESSION;

EUROPE; IRELAND; SIBERIA;

EID: 79960101744     PISSN: 00721069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2010.1206(01)     Document Type: Article

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