Paleozoic northward drift of the North Tien Shan (Central Asia) as revealed by Ordovician and Carboniferous paleomagnetism

Tectonophysics

Volumn 366, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 113-141

  Bazhenov, Mikhail L ^a,b   Collins, Adam Q ^b   Degtyarev, Kirill E ^a   Levashova, Natalia M ^a   Mikolaichuk, Alexander V ^c   Pavlov, Vladimir E ^d   Van der Voo, Rob ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c Kyrgyz National Academy of Sciences   (Kyrgyzstan)

^d SCHMIDT INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS OF THE EARTH   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Carboniferous; Ordovician; Paleolatitudes; Paleopoles; Tien Shan; Ural Mongol fold belt

Indexed keywords

CARBONIFEROUS; FOLD BELT; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOLATITUDE; PALEOMAGNETISM; PALEOZOIC; TECTONIC ROTATION;

ASIA; TIEN SHAN;

EID: 0038404628     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(03)00075-1     Document Type: Article

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