Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous closure of the Mongol-Okhotsk Ocean demonstrated by new Mesozoic palaeomagnetic results from the Trans-Baïkal area (SE Siberia)

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 163, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 813-832

  Cogné, Jean Pascal ^a   Kravchinsky, Vadim A ^a,b   Halim, Nadir ^a   Hankard, Fatim ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Mongol Okhotsk Ocean; Palaeomagnetism; Plate tectonics; Siberia

Indexed keywords

COLLISION ZONE; CRETACEOUS; DEMAGNETIZATION; JURASSIC; MAGNETIZATION; PALEOMAGNETISM; PLATE TECTONICS; SUTURE ZONE;

EURASIA; MONGOL-OKHOTSK FOLD BELT; SIBERIA;

EID: 33646058326     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2005.02782.x     Document Type: Article

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