Early Paleozoic paleomagnetic poles from the western part of the North China Block and their implications

Tectonophysics

Volumn 308, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 377-402

  Huang, Baochun ^a,b   Yang, Zhenyu ^b,c   Otofuji, Yo ichiro ^b   Zhu, Rixiang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE OF MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

Author keywords

Apparent Polar Wander Path (APWP); Early Paleozoic; North China Block (NCB); Paleogeography; Paleomagnetism

Indexed keywords

APPARENT POLAR WANDER PATH; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOMAGNETISM; PALEOZOIC;

CHINA;

EID: 0032709409     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(99)00098-0     Document Type: Article

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