Evidence for Early Cretaceous oceanic crust trapped in the Philippine Sea Plate

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 179, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 503-516

  Deschamps, A ^a   Monie P ^b   Lallemand, S ^a   Hsu, S K ^c   Yeh, K Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER 2   (France)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Ar 40 Ar 39; Magnetic anomalies; Oceanic crust; Philippine Sea Plate; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

ARGON-ARGON DATING; CRETACEOUS; MAGNETIC ANOMALY; OCEANIC CRUST;

TAIWAN;

EID: 0033928821     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(00)00136-9     Document Type: Article

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