Paleomagnetism of a Late Cretaceous island arc complex from South Sakhalin, East Asia: Convergent boundaries far away from the Asian continental margin?

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 106, Issue B9, 2001, Pages 19193-19205

  Bazhenov, Mikhail L ^a   Zharov, Alexander E ^b   Levashova, Natalia M ^a   Kodama, Kazuto ^c   Bragin, Nikita Y ^a   Fedorov, Peter I ^a   Bragina, Lyubov G ^a   Lyapunov, Sergey M ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b Geological Expedition   (Russian Federation)

^c KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENT MARGIN; CRETACEOUS; FOLD BELT; ISLAND ARC; PALEOMAGNETISM; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SAKHALIN ISLAND;

EID: 0034782599     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000jb900458     Document Type: Article

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