Spatial gap between Lhasa and Qiangtang blocks inferred from Middle Jurassic to Cretaceous paleomagnetic data

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 262, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 581-593

  Otofuji, Yo ichiro ^a   Mu, Chuan Long ^b   Tanaka, Kenji ^a   Miura, Daisuke ^c   Inokuchi, Hiroo ^d   Kamei, Rieko ^a   Tamai, Masato ^a   Takemoto, Kazuhiro ^a   Zaman, Haider ^a   Yokoyama, Masahiko ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHENGDU INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF HYOGO   (Japan)

Author keywords

collision; continent; Lhasa Block; paleomagnetism; Qiangtang Block; Shan Thai Block; tectonics

Indexed keywords

LHASA BLOCK; PALEOMAGNETISM; QIANGTANG BLOCK;

DEMAGNETIZATION; GEOMAGNETISM; SANDSTONE; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

TECTONICS;

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CRETACEOUS; DEMAGNETIZATION; JURASSIC; PALEOMAGNETISM; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; LHASA; QIANGTANG BASIN; XIZANG;

EID: 35148898882     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.08.013     Document Type: Article

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