A complete magnetic-polarity stratigraphy of the Miocene continental deposits of Mae Moh Basin, northern Thailand, and a reassessment of the age of hominoid-bearing localities in northern Thailand

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 7-8, 2010, Pages 1180-1191

  Coster, Pauline ^a   Benammi, Mouloud ^a,b   Chaimanee, Yaowalak ^a,c   Yamee, Chotima ^c   Chavasseau, Olivier ^a,c   Emonet, Edouard Georges ^a   Jaeger, Jean Jacques ^a  

^a Institut International de Paléoprimatologie et Paléontologie Humaine   (France)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c Department of Mineral Resources ^*  (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN FORMATION; COMPOSITE SECTIONS; HALF GRABEN; HIGH RESOLUTION; MARINE DEPOSITS; MIDDLE MIOCENE; MIOCENE; NEO GENES; NORTHERN THAILAND; OLD WORLDS; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

BEARINGS (STRUCTURAL); DEPOSITS; MAMMALS;

STRATIGRAPHY;

BASIN EVOLUTION; BIOCHRONOLOGY; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; EVOLUTION; FAUNA; FOSSIL RECORD; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRABEN; HOMINID; INTERMONTANE BASIN; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; MAMMAL; MIOCENE; NEOGENE; PALEOMAGNETISM;

LAMPANG; MAE MOH; NORTHERN REGION [THAILAND]; THAILAND;

HOMINOIDEA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 77953974113     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B26568.1     Document Type: Article

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