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Ecological associations in a regressive sequence: the latest Ordovician of the Oslo-Asker district, Norway
P J Brenchley,L R M Cocks +1 more
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Baltica from the late Precambrian to mid-Palaeozoic times: The gain and loss of a terrane's identity
TL;DR: The old terrane of Baltica occupies the mass of northern Europe eastwards to the Urals and lies mostly to the north of the Trans-European Suture Zone The core, the East European Craton, is thick and formed of rocks dating back to well over 3 billion yr, and Protobaltica can be identified as forming part of the supercontinent of Rodinia at about 1 billion yr ago as mentioned in this paper.
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Earth History and Palaeogeography
TL;DR: Using full-colour palaeogeographical maps from the Cambrian to the present, this interdisciplinary volume explains how plate motions and surface volcanism are linked to processes in the Earth's mantle, and to climate change and the evolution of Earth's biota.
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A global synthesis of the latest Ordovician Hirnantian brachiopod faunas
Rong Jia-Yu,David A. T. Harper +1 more
TL;DR: A global review of new and existing data on the distribution of uppermost Ordovician (Hirnantian) brachiopods indicates the existence of at least three biogeographically distinct faunas.
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The latest Ordovician Hirnantia Fauna (Brachiopoda) in time and space
TL;DR: The diachronous temporal and spatial distribution of the Hirnantia brachiopod fauna and the complicated pattern of terminal Ordovician events are documented through biostratigraphical analysis of the ordovician-Silurian boundary strata in S China, Sibumasu, Xizang and elsewhere.
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