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The initial break-up of Pangæa elicited by Late Palæozoic deglaciation

The break-up of Pangæa was principally facilitated by tensional plate stress acting on pre-existing suture zones. The rifting of Pangæa began during the Early Permian along the southern Tethys margin and produced the lenticular-shaped continent known as Cimmeria. A mantle-plume model is ascribed to...

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Autores principales: Yeh, Meng-Wan, Shellnutt, J. Gregory
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4980595/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27511791
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep31442

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