Title

Late Ordovician palaeogeography and the positions of the Kazakh terranes through analysis of their brachiopod faunas

Journal title

Acta Geologica Polonica

Yearbook

2017

Volume

vol. 67

Issue

No 3

Authors

Popov, Leonid E. ; Cocks, Robin M.

Divisions of PAS

Nauki o Ziemi

Publisher

Komitet Nauk Geologicznych PAN ; Wydział Geologii UW

Date

2017

Identifier

DOI: 10.1515/agp-2017-0020 ; ISSN 0001-5709

Source

Acta Geologica Polonica; 2017; vol. 67; No 3

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