Tectonic deformation around the eastern Himalayan syntaxis: Constraints from the Cretaceous palaeomagnetic data of the Shan-Thai Block

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 175, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 713-728

  Tanaka, Kenji ^a   Mu, Chuanlong ^b   Sato, Ken ^a   Takemoto, Kazuhiro ^a   Miura, Daisuke ^c   Liu, Yuyan ^d   Zaman, Haider ^a   Yang, Zhenyu ^e   Yokoyama, Masahiko ^a   Iwamoto, Hisanori ^a   Uno, Koji ^f   Otofuji, Yo Ichiro ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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

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

^d CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^e NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Asia; Continental tectonics: compressional; Geomorphology; Palaeomagnetism applied to tectonics

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CRETACEOUS; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; FOLD BELT; PALEOMAGNETISM; PLIOCENE; REMANENT MAGNETIZATION; SANDSTONE; TECTONIC ROTATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; HIMALAYAS;

EID: 54849421547     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03885.x     Document Type: Article

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