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...
Main Authors: | R. Damian Nance, Gabriel Gutiérrez-Alonso, J. Duncan Keppie, Ulf Linnemann, J. Brendan Murphy, Cecilio Quesada, Rob A. Strachan, Nigel H. Woodcock |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2012-03-01
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Series: | Geoscience Frontiers |
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Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674987111001113 |
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