Palaeomagnetic results from the ca. 1130 Ma Borgmassivet intrusions in the Ahlmannryggen region of Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica, and tectonic implications

Tectonophysics

Volumn 375, Issue 1-4, 2003, Pages 247-260

  Jones, D L ^a   Bates, M P ^b   Li, Z X ^a   Corner, B ^c   Hodgkinson, G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b Sander Geophysics Ltd   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Borgmassivet; East Antarctica; Kalahari; Maud Province; Palaeomagnetism

Indexed keywords

CRATON; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; PALEOMAGNETISM; PROTEROZOIC; TECTONIC SETTING;

ANTARCTICA; DRONNING MAUD LAND;

EID: 0242406946     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(03)00341-X     Document Type: Article

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