North Luzon and the Philippine Sea Plate motion model: Insights following paleomagnetic, structural, and age-dating investigations

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 112, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Queano, Karlo L ^a,b,e   Ali, Jason R ^a   Milsom, John ^a,c   Aitchison, Jonathan C ^a   Pubellier, Manuel ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b Mines and Geosciences Bureau Philippines   (Philippines)

^c Gladestry Associates   (United Kingdom)

^d LABORATOIRE DE GÉOLOGIE   (France)

^e Lands Geological Survey Division   (Philippines)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHIPELAGO; CRETACEOUS; DEFORMATION; EOCENE; MODELING; NEOGENE; PALEOMAGNETISM; PHILIPPINE SEA PLATE; PLATE MOTION; PLIOCENE; TECTONICS;

ASIA; EURASIA; LUZON; MIMAROPA; PALAWAN [MIMAROPA]; PHILIPPINES; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 57049151742     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JB004506     Document Type: Article

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