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Slide origin of breccia lenses in the Cambrian of the North China Platform: new insight into mass transport in an epeiric sea Cover

Slide origin of breccia lenses in the Cambrian of the North China Platform: new insight into mass transport in an epeiric sea

Geologos
Volume 18 (2012): Issue 4 (December 2012)
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10118-012-0011-3 | Journal eISSN: 2080-6574 | Journal ISSN: 1426-8981
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Language: English
Page range: 223 - 235
Submitted on: Sep 25, 2012
Accepted on: Nov 4, 2012
Published on: Dec 30, 2012
Published by: Adam Mickiewicz University
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Keywords:
breccia lenses,
sliding,
epeiric sea,
Chaomidian Formation,
Furongian,
North China Platform
Related subjects:
Geosciences,
Geology and mineralogy

© 2012 A.J. (Tom) van Loon, Zuozhen Han, Yu Han, published by Adam Mickiewicz University
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