Counter-clockwise rotation of the eastern part of the Mongolia block: Early Cretaceous palaeomagnetic results from Bikin, Far Eastern Russia

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 164, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 15-24

  Otofuji, Yo Ichiro ^a   Miura, Daisuke ^b   Takaba, Koichi ^a   Takemoto, Kazuhiro ^a   Narumoto, Kazutoshi ^a   Zaman, Haider ^a   Inokuchi, Hiroo ^c   Kulinich, Ruslan G ^d,e   Zimin, Petr S ^d   Sakhno, Vladimir G ^e  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HYOGO   (Japan)

^d IL ICHEV PACIFIC OCEANOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^e FAR EAST GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Continent; Cretaceous; Deformation; Mongolia block; Palaeomagnetism; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

BLOCK ROTATION; CRETACEOUS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MAGNETIZATION; PALEOMAGNETISM; TECTONICS;

EURASIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 33645964983     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2005.02790.x     Document Type: Article

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