Plate kinematic evolution of the present Arctic region since the Ordovician

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 360, Issue , 2002, Pages 333-358

  Lawver, Lawrence A ^a   Grantz, Arthur ^b   Gahagan, Lisa M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION;

ADDITIONAL STRESS; CONTINENTAL BLOCKS; EARLY CRETACEOUS; LOMONOSOV RIDGES; NORTH-EASTERN PACIFIC; PLATE KINEMATICS; RELATIVE POSITIONS; SEAFLOOR SPREADING;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

BALTICA; CALEDONIAN OROGENY; DEVONIAN; IAPETUS OCEAN; KINEMATICS; PLATE MOTION; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; SILURIAN; SUBDUCTION ZONE; SUBMARINE RIDGE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TRANSTENSION;

ADS ADMINISTRATIVE SUBDIVISION; ALASKA; ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); CANADA; CANADIAN ARCTIC; CHUKCHI; ELLESMERE ISLAND; GAKKEL RIDGE; LOMONOSOV RIDGE; NUNAVUT; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC RIM; QUEEN ELIZABETH ISLANDS; RUSSIAN FAR EAST; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SEWARD PENINSULA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870861427     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2360-4.333     Document Type: Article

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