CONTROLS ON MIDDLE TO LATE ORDOVICIAN SYNOROGENIC DEPOSITION IN THE SOUTHEASTERN CORNER OF LAURENTIA

CONTROLS ON MIDDLE TO LATE ORDOVICIAN SYNOROGENIC DEPOSITION IN THE SOUTHEASTERN CORNER OF LAURENTIA

Middle and Upper Ordovician strata in the southernmost Appalachians document initial collision along the southeastern margin of Laurentia during the Blountian orogeny, an early phase of the Taconic orogeny. Coeval drowning and exposure of different parts of the former platform and variations in stra...

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Main Author: Bayona, German
Format: Others
Published: UKnowledge 2003
Subjects:
Blountian orogeny|reactivation|Ordovician|peripheral foreland|inversion
Geology
Online Access:http://uknowledge.uky.edu/gradschool_diss/364
http://uknowledge.uky.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1367&context=gradschool_diss

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