Evidence for hyperextension along the pre-Caledonian margin of Baltica

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 169, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 601-612

  Andersen, Torgeir B ^a   Corfu, Fernando ^a   Labrousse, Loic ^b   Osmundsen, Per Terje ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b Sorbonne Universités   (France)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOCHTHONS; DEEP BASIN; METABASALTS; PALAEOZOIC; PROTEROZOIC; PROTEROZOIC BASEMENT; PYRENEES; REGIONAL MAPS; SILICICLASTIC SEDIMENTS; SOUTHERN NORWAY; WILSON CYCLE;

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS;

CRYSTALLINE ROCKS;

ALLOCHTHON; BASIN EVOLUTION; CALEDONIAN OROGENY; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; MELANGE; PASSIVE MARGIN; SILICICLASTIC DEPOSIT;

NORWAY;

EID: 84865974786     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492012-011     Document Type: Article

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