New palaeomagnetic, petrographic and 40Ar/39Ar data to test palaeogeographic reconstructions of Caledonide Svalbard

Geological Magazine

Volumn 149, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 696-721

  Michalski, Krzysztof ^a   Lewandowski, Marek ^b   Manby, Geoff ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arctic Caledonides; Late Ordovician Late Silurian amalgamation; Laurentia Baltica Svalbard relations; palaeomagnetism

Indexed keywords

DEMAGNETIZATION; METALS; MICA;

ARCTIC CALEDONIDES; GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS; LATERAL DISPLACEMENTS; PALAEOMAGNETISM; REMANENT MAGNETIZATION; SILURIAN; SVALBARD; THERMAL DEMAGNETIZATION;

GEOMAGNETISM;

ARGON-ARGON DATING; CALEDONIAN OROGENY; CAMBRIAN; DEMAGNETIZATION; ORDOVICIAN-SILURIAN BOUNDARY; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOMAGNETISM; PETROGRAPHY; RECONSTRUCTION; THERMOREMANENT MAGNETIZATION;

ARCTIC; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 84861832852     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: 14695081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016756811000835     Document Type: Article

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