Greater Avalonia—latest Ediacaran–Ordovician “peribaltic” terrane bounded by continental margin prisms (“Ganderia,” Harlech Dome, Meguma): Review, tectonic implications, and paleogeography
2021/11/24 by Ed Landing, J. Duncan Keppie, D. Fraser Keppie +2 · 1 citation
Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Baltica #Basement #Geological and Geochemical Analysis #Geology #High-pressure geophysics and materials #Island arc #Ordovician #Paleontology #Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils #Paleozoic #Passive margin #Rift #Sedimentary depositional environment #Siliciclastic #Structural basin #Subduction #Tectonics #Terrane #Unconformity
paper · doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2021.103863
openalex publication_date 2021/11/24 · crossref created 2021/11/24 · crossref issued 2022/01/01 · crossref published 2022/01/01 · crossref published-print 2022/01/01 · crossref deposited 2025/09/15 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · crossref indexed 2026/07/23 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
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