Paleomagnetism of the Marble Bar Chert Member, Western Australia: Implications for apparent polar wander path for Pilbara craton during Archean time

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 252, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 360-371

  Suganuma, Yusuke ^a   Hamano, Yozo ^a   Niitsuma, Sachiko ^b   Hoashi, Masamichi ^c   Hisamitsu, Toshio ^d   Niitsuma, Nobuaki ^e   Kodama, Kazuto ^f   Nedachi, Munetomo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Japan Agency for Marine Earth Science and Technology   (Japan)

^e SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

apparent polar wander path; Archean; Marble Bar Chert; paleomagnetism; Pilbara craton

Indexed keywords

CRATON; MAGNETIC COMPONENTS; PALEOMAGNETIC POLES; PALEOMAGNETISM; POLAR WANDER PATH;

MAGNETIZATION; ROCKS; TECTONICS;

GEOMAGNETISM;

APPARENT POLAR WANDER PATH; ARCHEAN; CONTINENTAL DRIFT; GEOMAGNETISM; MAGNETIZATION; PALEOLATITUDE; PALEOMAGNETISM;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; PILBARA BLOCK; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 33751173208     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2006.10.003     Document Type: Article

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