Evolution of Laurussia: A Study in Late Palaeozoic Plate TectonicsZiegler (geology, U. of Basel, Switzerland) provides an overview of the late Palaeozoic evolution of North America, Europe, the Arctic and North Africa in a plate tectonics framework. The late Palaeozoic evolution of Laurussia is illustrated by a set of ten interpretive palaeotectonic palaeogeograph |
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Evolution of Laurussia: A Study in Late Palaeozoic Plate Tectonics Peter A. Ziegler No preview available - 2011 |
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Alaska Alleghanian Appalachian Orogen arc-trench system Arch Arctic Arctic-North Atlantic back-arc basin back-arc extension Barents Shelf became boniferous Caledonian Caledonides Canadian carbonate platform Central clastics collision continental clastics convergence Cook and Bally Cordilleran miogeocline Dallmeyer deformation deposited dextral early Carboniferous early Devonian early Permian EVAPORITES evolution Famennian fault foredeep foreland basin Geol Geology geosynclinal system Gondwana grabens Greenland Hercynian intra-plate Inuitian fold belt Kazakhstan Keppie late Carboniferous late Devonian late Permian Laurussia lithosphere Lomonosov Lond margin of Laurussia Massif Mauretanides middle Devonian Mississippian Moscow Platform Namurian Namurian and Westphalian North American Craton northern margin Norwegian-Greenland Sea Rift Ocean Old Red orogenic orogenic activity palachian Paleozoic Pangea Petrol phase Plate Publ regional Rhenohercynian Basin sea-level sedimentary sedimentation shales SHALLOW MARINE Siberian Silurian southern subsidence Taimyr tectonic terranes Tethys thrust tion Triassic Trough uplift Ural Uralian Variscan fold belt Variscan foreland Visean volcanism western wrench Zemlya Ziegler Zonenshain