Assembly of Proterozoic Australia: Implications of a revised pole for the ∼1070 Ma Alcurra Dyke Swarm, central Australia

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 167, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 626-634

  Schmidt, Phillip W ^a   Williams, George E ^b   Camacho, Alfredo ^c   Lee, James K W ^c  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

APW; Musgrave block; Palaeogeography; Palaeomagnetism; Precambrian; Rodinia

Indexed keywords

CRATON; DEFORMATION; DIKE SWARM; GNEISS; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOMAGNETISM; PRECAMBRIAN; PROTEROZOIC;

ARUNTA BLOCK; AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; NORTHERN TERRITORY;

EID: 33750808996     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2006.03192.x     Document Type: Article

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