New Cretaceous and Early Tertiary paleomagnetic results from Xining-Lanzhou basin, Kunlun and Qiangtang blocks, China: Implications on the geodynamic evolution of Asia

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 103, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 21025-21045

  Halim, N ^a   Cogne J P ^a   Chen, Y ^b   Atasiei, R ^a   Besse, J ^a   Courtillot, V ^a   Gilder, S ^a   Marcoux, J ^a   Zhao, R L ^c  

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

^b UNIVERSITÉ D'ORLÉANS   (France)

^c Nuclear Industry Geological Bureau of Qinghai Province   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; GEODYNAMICS; PALEOMAGNETISM; TERTIARY;

ASIA;

EID: 0032505281     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98jb01118     Document Type: Article

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