The bratten-landegode gneiss complex: A fragment of laurentian continental crust in the uppermost allochthon of the scandinavian caledonides

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 390, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 633-654

  Augland, Lars Eivind ^a,b   Andresen, Arild ^a   Corfu, Fernando ^a   Agyei Dwarko, Nana Yaw ^a   Larionov, Alexander N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c A P KARPINSKY RUSSIAN GEOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOCHTHON; BALTICA; CALEDONIAN OROGENY; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CONTINENTAL CRUST; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GNEISS; LAURENTIA; TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHY;

BODO; CALEDONIDES; NORDLAND; NORWAY;

EID: 84897931939     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP390.1     Document Type: Article

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