Regional Geological History: Why and How?

Geological History of Britain and Ireland: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1-18

  Woodcock, N H ^a   Strachan, R A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Britain, Ireland and its surrounding crust; Historical geology in Britain, search for geological resources; Igneous rocks, plutonic and volcanic types; Locating events in space; Methods of radiometric age determination; Regional geological history; Regional palaeogeographic maps, crustal scale; Specifying geological environments

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886134768     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118274064.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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