A brief history of the Rheic Ocean

A brief history of the Rheic Ocean

The Rheic Ocean was one of the most important oceans of the Paleozoic Era. It lay between Laurentia and Gondwana from the Early Ordovician and closed to produce the vast Ouachita-Alleghanian-Variscan orogen during the assembly of Pangea. Rifting began in the Cambrian as a continuation of Neoproteroz...

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Main Authors: R. Damian Nance, Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso, J. Duncan Keppie, Ulf Linnemann, J. Brendan Murphy, Cecilio Quesada, Rob A. Strachan, Nigel H. Woodcock
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2012-03-01
Series:Geoscience Frontiers
Subjects:
Rheic Ocean
Variscan-Alleghanian-Ouachita orogen
Pangea
North America
Europe
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674987111001113

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