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PALEOGEOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION: With an Example From the Mid-Cretaceous

A. M. Ziegler, David B. Rowley, Ann L. Lottes, Dork Sahagian, Michael Hulver, Theresa C. Gierlowski

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences · 1985 · 67 citations · 82 references

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Abstract

Carbonatites are igneous rocks formed in the crust by fractional crystallization of carbonate-rich parental melts that are mostly mantle derived. They dominantly consist of carbonate minerals such as calcite, dolomite, and ankerite, as well as minor ...Read More

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Subcommission on geochronology: Convention on the use of decay constants in geo- and cosmochronology

Rudolf H. Steiger, E. Jäger · Earth and Planetary Science Letters · 1977 · 10K citations

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Cenozoic Tectonics of Asia: Effects of a Continental Collision: Features of recent continental tectonics in Asia can be interpreted as results of the India-Eurasia collision

Péter Molnár, P. Tapponnier · Science · 1975 · 4.5K citations

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Some remarks on the development of sedimentary basins

Dan McKenzie · Earth and Planetary Science Letters · 1978 · 3.9K citations

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Continental stretching: An explanation of the Post‐Mid‐Cretaceous subsidence of the central North Sea Basin

John G. Sclater, P. A. F. Christie · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 1980 · 2.1K citations

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Geometry and kinematics of fault-bend folding

John Suppe · American Journal of Science · 1983 · 1.7K citations · Full text

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