Odyssey of terranes in the Iapetus and Rheic oceans during the Paleozoic

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 336, Issue , 1999, Pages 267-276

  Duncan Keppie, J ^a   Ramos, Victor A ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METALS;

BACK-ARC BASIN; COMPRESSIONAL; EARLY CAMBRIANS; EARLY ORDOVICIAN; LATE ORDOVICIAN; NORTH AMERICAN; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA;

TRANSFORM FAULTS;

BACKARC BASIN; COLLAPSE; CRATON; GONDWANA; LAURENTIA; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOMAGNETISM; PALEOZOIC; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TERRANE; ZOOGEOGRAPHICAL REGION;

AVALON ZONE; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 84870944549     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2336-1.267     Document Type: Article

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