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Proto-Atlantic Oceanic Crust and Mantle: Appalachian/Caledonian Ophiolites

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Details of the history of the so-called Proto-Atlantic Ocean can be elucidated from a study of the occurrence of ophiolite suites in the Appalachian/Caledonian system.

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  1. Department of Geological Sciences, State University of New York at Albany, New York

    JOHN M. BIRD & JOHN F. DEWEY

  2. Department of Geology, University of Cambridge,

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BIRD, J., DEWEY, J. & KIDD, W. Proto-Atlantic Oceanic Crust and Mantle: Appalachian/Caledonian Ophiolites. Nature Physical Science 231, 28–31 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/physci231028a0

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