Evolution of the Altaid tectonic collage and Palaeozoic crustal growth in Eurasia

1993/07/01 by A. M. C. Şengör, A. M. Celâl Şengör, Boris A. Natal’in +3 · 3,805 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Accretion (finance) #Baltica #Cenozoic #Crust #Earth science #Geological Studies and Exploration #Geological and Geochemical Analysis #Geology #High-pressure geophysics and materials #Island arc #Mantle (geology) #Ordovician #Paleontology #Paleozoic #Phanerozoic #Subduction #Tectonics

paper · doi:10.1038/364299a0

published in Nature 364(6435), 299-307 (Nature Portfolio)

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