Variscides between the Appalachians and the Urals: Similarities and differences between Paleozoic subduction and collision belts

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 364, Issue , 2002, Pages 239-251

  Matte, Philippe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER 2   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS;

CONTINENTAL CRUSTS; HIGH PRESSURE METAMORPHISM; MOUNTAIN BELTS; OUACHITA MOUNTAINS; POLYMETAMORPHISM; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; VARISCAN BELT; WESTERN EUROPE;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

COLLISION ZONE; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; LAURENTIA; METAMORPHISM; PALEOZOIC; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING;

APPALACHIANS; OUACHITA MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84871007995     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2364-7.239     Document Type: Article

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