Magnetostratigraphy of Paleogene sediments from northern Qaidam Basin, China: Implications for tectonic uplift and block rotation in northern Tibetan plateau

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 237, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 635-646

  Sun, Zhiming ^a   Yang, Zhenyu ^b   Pei, Junling ^a   Ge, Xiaohong ^c   Wang, Xisheng ^a   Yang, Tienshui ^a   Li, Weimin ^c   Yuan, Sihua ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Eocene; Magnetostratigraphy; Oligocene; Qaidam Basin; Rotation

Indexed keywords

EOCENE; MAGNETIC POLARITY; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; OLIGOCENE; PALEOGENE; SHEAR STRAIN;

DEMAGNETIZATION; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETIZATION; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTS; STRAIN; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS;

SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; PALEOGENE;

ASIA; CHINA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QAIDAM BASIN; QINGHAI; WORLD;

OSTRACODA;

EID: 24144475513     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2005.07.007     Document Type: Article

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