Timing of the North-South China collision from new middle to late Mesozoic paleomagnetic data from the North China Block

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 102, Issue B8, 1997, Pages 17713-17727

  Gilder, Stuart ^a,b   Courtillot, Vincent ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLISION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; MESOZOIC; PALAEOMAGNETISM; SUTURE;

CHINA, NORTH CHINA BLOCK;

EID: 0031423999     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97jb01201     Document Type: Article

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