Plate tectonics on early Earth? Weighing the paleomagnetic evidence

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 440, Issue , 2008, Pages 249-263

  Evans, David A D ^a   Pisarevsky, Sergei A ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Archean; Paleomagnetism; Plate tectonics; Precambrian; Proterozoic

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); GEOMAGNETISM;

ARCHEAN; PALEOMAGNETIC EVIDENCE; PALEOMAGNETIC POLES; PALEOMAGNETISM; PRECAMBRIAN; PROTEROZOIC; QUANTITATIVE METHOD; REGIONAL TECTONICS;

TECTONICS;

APPARENT POLAR WANDER PATH; ARCHEAN; EARLY EARTH; PALEOMAGNETISM; PLATE MOTION; PLATE TECTONICS; PRECAMBRIAN; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 67349252557     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2008.2440(12)     Document Type: Article

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