The Palaeo-Asian ocean in the Neoproterozoic and early Palaeozoic: New geochronologic data and palaeotectonic reconstructions

Precambrian Research

Volumn 122, Issue 1-4, 2003, Pages 329-358

  Khain, E V ^a   Bibikova, E V ^b   Salnikova, E B ^c   Kroner A ^d   Gibsher, A S ^e   Didenko, A N ^f   Degtyarev, K E ^a   Fedotova, A A ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b VERNADSKY INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^c INSTITUTE OF PRECAMBRIAN GEOLOGY AND GEOCHRONOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^d JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e SOBOLEV INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY   (Russian Federation)

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

Author keywords

Baltica; Central Asian fold belt; Geochronology; Mongolia; Neoproterozoic; Ophiolite; Palaeomagnetism; Rodinia; Siberia

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPE;

GEOCHRONOLOGY; OPHIOLITE; PALEOMAGNETISM; PALEOZOIC; PROTEROZOIC; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION;

AGE DETERMINATION; ARTICLE; ASIA; ASTHENOSPHERIC UPWELLING; CHRONOLOGY; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; GEOLOGY; MAGNETISM; MONGOLIA; MOTONEURON; PROTEROZOIC; ROCK; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SEA; TIME; VOLCANO;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 0242432337     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-9268(02)00218-8     Document Type: Article

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