Paleomagnetic evidence for block rotations in central Hokkaido-south Sakhalin, Northeast Asia

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 169, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 7-21

  Takeuchi, Tohru ^a   Kodama, Kazuto ^b   Ozawa, Tomowo ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Miocene; Northeast Asia; Paleomagnetic rotation; Plate boundary; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

BLOCK ROTATION; CENOZOIC; PALEOMAGNETISM; PLATE BOUNDARY; TECTONICS;

ASIA;

EID: 0033617638     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(99)00081-3     Document Type: Article

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