Neotethys and the India-Asia collision: Insights from a palaeomagnetic study of the Dazhuqu ophiolite, southern Tibet

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 233, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 87-102

  Abrajevitch, Alexandra V ^a,b   Ali, Jason R ^a   Aitchison, Jonathan C ^a   Badengzhu, ^c   Davis, Aileen M ^d   Liu, Jianbing ^a,e   Ziabrev, Sergey V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c Tibetan Geological Survey   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^e Xinjiang Inst Geol Mineral Rsrc   (China)

Author keywords

Ophiolites; Palaeomagnetism; Tethys; Tibet; Yarlung Tsangpo suture

Indexed keywords

OCEANOGRAPHY; ROTATION; SEISMOLOGY; TECTONICS; TOMOGRAPHY; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

GEOLOGICAL MODELS; GEOPHYSICAL MODELS; INTRA-OCEANIC SUBDUCTION SYSTEM; MUDSTONES;

GEOLOGY;

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; OPHIOLITE; PALEOMAGNETISM; TETHYS;

ASIA; CHINA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; WORLD; XIZANG;

EID: 17044374565     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2005.02.003     Document Type: Article

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