New Early Cretaceous paleomagnetic data from volcanic and red beds of the eastern Qaidam Block and its implications for tectonics of Central Asia

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 243, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 268-281

  Sun, Zhiming ^a   Yang, Zhenyu ^b   Pei, Junling ^a   Yang, Tianshui ^a   Wang, Xisheng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Early cretaceous; Inclination shallowing; Paleomagnetic; Qaidam block

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS BASALT; EARLY CRETACEOUS; INCLINATION SHALLOWING; ISOTHERMAL REMANENT MAGNETIZATION (IRM); PALEOMAGNETIC; QAIDAM BLOCK; THERMAL DEMAGNETIZATION;

BASALT; DEMAGNETIZATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; ISOTHERMS; MAGNETIZATION; REMANENCE; VOLCANIC ROCKS; VOLCANOES;

TECTONICS;

CRETACEOUS; PALEOMAGNETISM; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QAIDAM BASIN; QINGHAI;

EID: 33344469606     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2005.12.016     Document Type: Article

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