Paleozoic links among some Alaskan accreted terranes and Siberia based on megafossils

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 360, Issue , 2002, Pages 273-290

  Blodgett, Robert B ^a   Rohr, David M ^b   Boucot, A J ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SUL ROSS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DEVONIANS (EMSIAN); LAURENTIAN; MOST LIKELY; NORTH AMERICAN; NORTHERN ALASKA; ORDOVICIAN; YUKON RIVERS;

ANIMALS;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BRACHIOPOD; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRATON; DEVONIAN; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; FOSSIL RECORD; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOBOTANY; PERMIAN; SILURIAN; SPONGE;

ALASKA; ALASKA RANGE; ARCTIC; PORCUPINE RIVER; SIBERIA; UNITED STATES; URALS; YUKON RIVER;

EID: 84864101799     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2360-4.273     Document Type: Article

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