Cenozoic Plate interaction of the Australia and Philippine Sea Plates: "Hit-and-run" tectonics

Tectonophysics

Volumn 363, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 181-199

  Pubellier, Manuel ^a   Ali, Jason ^b   Monnier, Christophe ^c  

^a LABORATOIRE DE GÉOLOGIE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

Australia; Cenozoic tectonics; Eurasia; Kinematics; Marginal basins; New Guinea; Paleomagnetics; Philippines; Sunda Plate

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIAN PLATE; CENOZOIC; OPHIOLITE; PHILIPPINE SEA PLATE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

NEW GUINEA; PHILIPPINE SEA; PHILIPPINES;

EID: 0037435090     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(02)00671-6     Document Type: Article

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