Magnetostratigraphic Study of the Continental Sedimentary Sequence of the Chiang Muan Basin, Northern Thailand: Implications for the Age of the First Miocene Hominoids from Thailand

International Geology Review

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 646-654

  Benammi, Mouloud ^a   Chaimanee, Yaowalak ^b   Urrutia Fucugauchi, Jaime ^a   Jaeger, Jean Jacques ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b Department of Mineral Resources ^*  (Thailand)

^c INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATING METHOD; FOSSIL; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; MIOCENE;

ASIA; CHIANG MUAN BASIN; EURASIA; NORTHERN REGION [THAILAND]; SOUTHEAST ASIA; THAILAND;

HOMINIDAE; LUFENGPITHECUS CHIANGMUANENSIS;

EID: 3543148313     PISSN: 00206814     EISSN: 19382839     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0020-6814.46.7.646     Document Type: Article

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