New Late Jurassic palaeomagnetic data from the northern Sichuan basin: Implications for the deformation of the Yangtze craton

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 139, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 795-805

  Yokoyama, Masahiko ^a   Liu, Yuyan ^b   Otofuji, Yo Ichiro ^a   Yang, Zhenyu ^a,c  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

Author keywords

Continental deformation; Jurassic; Palaeomagnetism; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; JURASSIC; PALEOMAGNETISM; TECTONICS;

CHINA;

EID: 0033369786     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-246X.1999.00951.x     Document Type: Article

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