Rotations in the actively colliding Finisterre Arc Terrane: Paleomagnetic constraints on Plio-Pleistocene evolution of the South Bismarck microplate, northeastern Papua New Guinea

Tectonophysics

Volumn 316, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 297-325

  Weiler, P D ^a   Coe, R S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Active tectonics; Collision; Paleomagnetism; Southwest Pacific; Tectonostratigraphic terranes

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC; COLLISION ZONE; MICROPLATE; PALEOMAGNETISM; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC ROTATION; TERRANE;

PAPUA NEW GUINEA;

EID: 0034731861     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(99)00259-0     Document Type: Article

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