Paleomagnetic constraints on the evolution of Paleozoic suspect terranes from southern South America

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 336, Issue , 1999, Pages 171-182

  Rapalini, Augusto E ^a   Astini, Ricardo A ^b   Conti, Carlos M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMAGNETISM;

EARLY ORDOVICIAN; EARLY PALEOZOIC; NORTHWEST ARGENTINA; PALEOMAGNETIC DATA; PALEOMAGNETIC POLES; PALEOZOIC ROCKS; SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

TECTONICS;

APPARENT POLAR WANDER PATH; CAMBRIAN; DEVONIAN; DISPLACEMENT; GONDWANA; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOMAGNETISM; REMAGNETIZATION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TERRANE; VOLCANIC ARC;

SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 84870897779     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2336-1.171     Document Type: Article

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