Terrane transfer between eastern Laurentia and western Gondwana in the early Paleozoic: Constraints on global reconstructions

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 304, Issue , 1996, Pages 369-380

  Keppie, J Duncan ^a,d   Dostal, J ^b   Murphy, J Brendan ^a   Nance, R Damian ^c  

^a ST FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b SAINT MARY S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMAGNETISM; REPAIR;

CONTINENTAL RISE; EARLY ORDOVICIAN; EARLY PALEOZOIC; LOWER ORDOVICIAN; NORTHERN APPALACHIANS; RELATIVE POSITIONS; SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS; WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

AVALONIA; CAMBRIAN; CONTINENTAL RISE; DALRADIAN; DEVONIAN; GONDWANA; LAURENTIA; ORDOVICIAN-SILURIAN BOUNDARY; PALEOMAGNETISM; PALEOZOIC; TERRANE;

ANDES; APPALACHIANS; ARGENTINA; CALEDONIDES; CANADA; CAROLINA; LAURENTIAN MOUNTAINS; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; OAXACA; PRECORDILLERA; PUERTO RICO; QUEBEC [CANADA];

EID: 84870781100     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2304-3.369     Document Type: Article

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