Paleomagnetic study of middle Cretaceous rocks from Yunlong, western Yunnan, China: Evidence of southward displacement of Indochina

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 165, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-15

  Sato, Ken ^a   Liu, Yuyan ^b   Zhu, Zhicheng ^b   Yang, Zhenyu ^a   Otofuji, Yo Ichiro ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Cretaceous; Deformation; Indochina; Paleomagnetism; Plate collision; Yunnan China

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; DEFORMATION; PALEOMAGNETISM; PLATE CONVERGENCE; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION;

CHINA; YUNLONG; YUNNAN PROVINCE;

EID: 0033555195     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(98)00257-X     Document Type: Article

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