Carboniferous North Atlantic palaeogeography: stratigraphic evidence for rifting, not megashear or subduction
Abstract Three theories have been proposed for the origin of Carboniferous basins in Britain: megashear; tension from Rheic Ocean subduction; tension from rifting of the North Atlantic. The first two hypotheses are rejected because they do not explain the Carboniferous volcanism, Stephanian dyke swa...
| Published in: | Geological Magazine |
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press (CUP)
1984
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0016756800029988 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0016756800029988 |