No vertical axis rotations during Neogene transpressional orogeny in the NE Gobi Altai: Coinciding Mongolian and Eurasian early Cretaceous apparent polar wander paths

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 173, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 105-126

  Van Hinsbergen, Douwe J J ^a   Straathof, Gijs B ^a,b   Kuiper, Klaudia F ^b,c   Cunningham, W Dickson ^a   Wijbrans, Jan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Asia; Continentaltectonics: strike slip and transform; Palaeomagnetism applied to tectonics

Indexed keywords

APPARENT POLAR WANDER PATH; CRETACEOUS; ERROR ANALYSIS; LAVA FLOW; NEOGENE; OROGENY; PALEOMAGNETISM; SECULAR VARIATION; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONIC ROTATION; TRANSPRESSION;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GOVI-ALTAY; MONGOLIA;

EID: 41349094021     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03712.x     Document Type: Article

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