Atlantica revisited: New data and thoughts on the formation and evolution of a long-lived continent

International Geology Review

Volumn 53, Issue 11-12, 2011, Pages 1377-1391

  Neves, Sérgio Pacheco ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brasiliano Pan African; geochronology; palaeomagnetism; supercontinents; Transamazonian Eburnian

Indexed keywords

BRASILIANO OROGENY; CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRATON; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; MESOZOIC; OROGENIC BELT; PAN AFRICAN OROGENY; PASSIVE MARGIN; PLATE CONVERGENCE; PRECAMBRIAN; PROTEROZOIC; SUPERCONTINENT; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 79960515131     PISSN: 00206814     EISSN: 19382839     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00206814.2010.527676     Document Type: Article

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