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Murphy, J. Brendan, Keppie, J. Duncan, Nance, R. Damian, Dostal, Jaroslav (2010) Comparative evolution of the Iapetus and Rheic Oceans: A North America perspective. Gondwana Research, 17 (2) 482-499 doi:10.1016/j.gr.2009.08.009

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Reference Type	Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Title	Comparative evolution of the Iapetus and Rheic Oceans: A North America perspective
Journal	Gondwana Research
Authors	Murphy, J. Brendan		Author
	Keppie, J. Duncan		Author
	Nance, R. Damian		Author
	Dostal, Jaroslav		Author
Year	2010 (March)	Volume	17
Issue	2
Publisher	Elsevier BV
URL	https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1342937X09001671
DOI	doi:10.1016/j.gr.2009.08.009Search in ResearchGate
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Mindat Ref. ID	711631	Long-form Identifier	mindat:1:5:711631:9
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Full Reference	Murphy, J. Brendan, Keppie, J. Duncan, Nance, R. Damian, Dostal, Jaroslav (2010) Comparative evolution of the Iapetus and Rheic Oceans: A North America perspective. Gondwana Research, 17 (2) 482-499 doi:10.1016/j.gr.2009.08.009
Plain Text	Murphy, J. Brendan, Keppie, J. Duncan, Nance, R. Damian, Dostal, Jaroslav (2010) Comparative evolution of the Iapetus and Rheic Oceans: A North America perspective. Gondwana Research, 17 (2) 482-499 doi:10.1016/j.gr.2009.08.009
In	(2010, March) Gondwana Research Vol. 17 (2) Elsevier BV

👁 Image	Nance, R. Damian, Gutiérrez-Alonso, Gabriel, Keppie, J. Duncan, Linnemann, Ulf, Murphy, J. Brendan, Quesada, Cecilio, Strachan, Rob A., Woodcock, Nigel H. (2010) Evolution of the Rheic Ocean. Gondwana Research, 17 (2) 194-222 doi:10.1016/j.gr.2009.08.001
👁 Image	Keppie, J. Duncan, Nance, R. Damian, Murphy, J. Brendan, Dostal, Jaroslav, Braid, James A. (2010) The high-pressure Iberian–Czech belt in the Variscan orogen: Extrusion into the upper (Gondwanan) plate?. Gondwana Research, 17 (2) 306-316 doi:10.1016/j.gr.2009.08.007
👁 Image	Keppie, J. Duncan, Nance, R. Damian, Murphy, J. Brendan, Miller, Brent V., Dostal, Jaroslav, Ortega-Rivera, Amabel (2009) Pressure-temperature-time evolution of high-pressure rocks of the Acatlán Complex (southern Mexico): Implications for the evolution of the Iapetus and Rheic Oceans: Comment: Figure 1. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 121 (9) 1456-1459 doi:10.1130/b26356.1
👁 Image	Murphy, J. Brendan, Cousens, Brian L., Braid, James A., Strachan, Rob A., Dostal, Jaroslav, Keppie, J. Duncan, Nance, R. Damian (2011) Highly depleted oceanic lithosphere in the Rheic Ocean: Implications for Paleozoic plate reconstructions. Lithos, 123 (1) 165-175 doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2010.09.014
👁 Image	Keppie, J. Duncan, Dostal, Jaroslav, Murphy, J. Brendan, Nance, R. Damian (2008) Synthesis and tectonic interpretation of the westernmost Paleozoic Variscan orogen in southern Mexico: From rifted Rheic margin to active Pacific margin. Tectonophysics, 461 (1) 277-290 doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2008.01.012
👁 Image	*Nance, R. Damian (2010) The Rheic Ocean: Palaeozoic evolution from Gondwana and Laurussia to Pangaea — Introduction. Gondwana Research, 17 (2) 189-192 doi:10.1016/j.gr.2009.12.001*
👁 Image	Nance, R. Damian, Miller, Brent V., Keppie, J. Duncan, Murphy, J. Brendan, Dostal, Jaroslav (2006) Acatlán Complex, southern Mexico: Record spanning the assembly and breakup of Pangea. Geology, 34 (10) 857 doi:10.1130/g22642.1
👁 Image	Murphy, J. Brendan, Gutierrez-Alonso, Gabriel, Nance, R. Damian, Fernandez-Suarez, Javier, Keppie, J. Duncan, Quesada, Cecilio, Strachan, Rob A., Dostal, Jarda (2006) Origin of the Rheic Ocean: Rifting along a Neoproterozoic suture?. Geology, 34 (5) 325 doi:10.1130/g22068.1
👁 Image	Murphy, J. Brendan, Gutiérrez-Alonso, Gabriel, Nance, R. Damian, Fernández-Suárez, Javier, Keppie, J. Duncan, Quesada, Cecilio, Strachan, Rob A., Dostal, Jaroslav (2008) Tectonic Plates Come Apart at the Seams. American Scientist, 96 (2). 129pp. doi:10.1511/2008.70.3639
👁 Image	Keppie, J. Duncan, Murphy, J. Brendan, Nance, R. Damian, Dostal, Jaroslav (2012) Mesoproterozoic Oaxaquia-type basement in peri-Gondwanan terranes of Mexico, the Appalachians, and Europe:TDMage constraints on extent and significance. International Geology Review, 54 (3) 313-324 doi:10.1080/00206814.2010.543783
👁 Image	Nance, R. Damian, Gutiérrez-Alonso, Gabriel, Keppie, J. Duncan, Linnemann, Ulf, Murphy, J. Brendan, Quesada, Cecilio, Strachan, Rob A., Woodcock, Nigel H. (2012) A brief history of the Rheic Ocean. Geoscience Frontiers, 3 (2) 125-135 doi:10.1016/j.gsf.2011.11.008

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Murphy, J. Brendan, Keppie, J. Duncan, Nance, R. Damian, Dostal, Jaroslav (2010) Comparative evolution of the Iapetus and Rheic Oceans: A North America perspective. Gondwana Research, 17 (2) 482-499 doi:10.1016/j.gr.2009.08.009

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