Paleozoic evolution of pre-Variscan terranes: From Gondwana to the Variscan collision

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 364, Issue , 2002, Pages 263-280

  Stampfli, Gérard M ^a   Von Raumer, Jürgen F ^b   Borel, Gilles D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY WEDGE; BACKARC RIFTING; MIDDLE DEVONIAN; NEOPROTEROZOIC; ORDOVICIAN; OROGENIC EVENTS; PALEO-TETHYS; VOLCANIC ARC;

AVALONIA; GONDWANA; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; ORDOVICIAN; OROGENIC BELT; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PLATE TECTONICS; TERRANE;

EURASIA;

EID: 84871008876     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2364-7.263     Document Type: Article

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