Reconstructing pre-Pangean supercontinents

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 125, Issue 11-12, 2013, Pages 1735-1751

  Evans, David A D ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSENSUS MODELS; GLOBAL SYNTHESIS; KINEMATIC CONSTRAINTS; PALEOMAGNETIC DATA; PALEOPROTEROZOIC; RODINIA SUPERCONTINENT; TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHY; U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGY;

GEOCHRONOLOGY; LEAD; LEVEES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; URANIUM;

GALLIUM;

BALTICA; CRATON; GONDWANA; LAURENTIA; OROGENIC BELT; PALEOMAGNETISM; PASSIVE MARGIN; PROTEROZOIC; RIFTING; RODINIA; SUPERCONTINENT; TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHY; TERRANE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

ANTARCTICA; AUSTRALIA; SIBERIA;

EID: 84887221919     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 19432674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B30950.1     Document Type: Article

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