Papua New Guinea Highlands: Palaeomagnetic constraints on terrane tectonics

Tectonophysics

Volumn 362, Issue 1-4, 2003, Pages 239-272

  Klootwijk, Chris ^a   Giddings, John ^a   Pigram, Chris ^b   Loxton, Charles ^f   Davies, Hugh ^c   Rogerson, Rick ^d   Falvey, David ^e  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA   (Papua New Guinea)

^d GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^e BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^f NONE

Author keywords

Australian plate; Highlands; Palaeolatitudes; Palaeomagnetism; Papua New Guinea; Rotations; Tectonics; Terranes

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC; PALEOLATITUDE; PALEOMAGNETISM; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC ROTATION; TERRANE;

PAPUA NEW GUINEA;

EID: 0037421695     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(02)00640-6     Document Type: Article

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