The tooth of time: How do passive margins become active?

Geoscience Canada

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 67-73

  Hoffman, Paul F ^a  

^a NONE   (Canada)

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Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CONVERGENT MARGIN; DIP; EURASIAN PLATE; OROGENY; PASSIVE MARGIN; SUBDUCTION;

DAMARA BELT; NAMIBIA; NORTH AMERICAN CORDILLERA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 84870399263     PISSN: 03150941     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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