Relationship between northwestern Tasmania and East Gondwanaland in the Late Cambrian/Early Ordovician: Paleomagnetic evidence

Tectonics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 161-171

  Li, Z X ^a   Baillie, P W ^a,b   Powell, C M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b W Australian Dept Minerals Ener   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMBRIAN; GONDWANA; ORDOVICIAN; PALAEOMAGNETISM; PALAEOPOLE POSITION;

AUSTRALIA, TASMANIA;

GEOCHRONOLOGY; HIGH TEMPERATURE EFFECTS;

DIAGENETICS; EARLY ORDOVICIAN; HIGH TEMPERATURE COMPONENTS; LATE DEVONIAN; NEOPROTEROZOIC; PALEOMAGNETIC EVIDENCE; PALEOMAGNETIC POLES; SUPERCONTINENTS;

DYNAMIC POSITIONING;

EID: 0030769507     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96TC02729     Document Type: Article

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