Late Permian to late Triassic palaeomagnetic data from Iran: constraints on the migration of the Iranian block through the Tethyn Ocean and initial destruction of Pangea

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 135, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 77-92

  Besse, J ^a   Torcq, F ^a   Gallet, Y ^a   Ricou, L E ^a   Krystyn, L ^b   Saidi, A ^c  

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

^b Institute for Palaeontology   (Austria)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF IRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PALEOMAGNETISM; PANGAEA; PERMIAN; TETHYS; TRIASSIC;

IRAN;

EID: 0032418701     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-246X.1998.00603.x     Document Type: Article

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