Paleomagnetism of the Precambrian Eastern Sayan rocks: Implications for the Ediacaran-Early Cambrian paleogeography of the Tuva-Mongolian composite terrane

Tectonophysics

Volumn 486, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 65-80

  Kravchinsky, Vadim A ^a   Sklyarov, Eugene V ^b   Gladkochub, Dmitry P ^b   Harbert, William P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE OF THE EARTH S CRUST   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Ediacaran; Mongolia; Paleomagnetism; Riphean; Sayan; Siberia

Indexed keywords

CAMBRIANS; CONTINENTAL BLOCKS; EARTH'S MAGNETIC FIELD; EDIACARAN; EURASIA; FINE GRAINED; FOLD BELTS; KEY ELEMENTS; MAGNETIC COMPONENTS; MONGOLIA; NEOPROTEROZOIC; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOZOIC; PRECAMBRIAN; REMAGNETIZATION; REMANENT MAGNETIZATION; REMOTE REGIONS; RIPHEAN; RODINIA; SIBERIA; SIBERIAN PLATFORM; SILTSTONES; STEPWISE THERMAL DEMAGNETIZATION; SUPERCONTINENTS; TECTONIC EVENTS; TECTONIC HISTORY;

DEMAGNETIZATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEOMAGNETISM; MAGNETIC FIELDS; POLES; TECTONICS;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CAMBRIAN; CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DEMAGNETIZATION; EDIACARAN; FOLD BELT; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETIC INCLINATION; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOMAGNETISM; PRECAMBRIAN; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RECONSTRUCTION; RODINIA; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TERRANE;

MONGOLIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SAYAN MOUNTAINS; TUVA;

EID: 77952010357     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2010.02.010     Document Type: Article

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