Jurassic-Cretaceous low paleolatitudes from the circum-Black Sea region (Crimea and Pontides) due to True Polar Wander

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 296, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 210-226

  Meijers, Maud J M ^a,b   Langereis, Cor G ^a   van Hinsbergen, Douwe J J ^c   Kaymakci, Nuretdin ^d   Stephenson, Randell A ^e   Altiner, Demir ^d  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Eurasia; Inclination error; Low latitudes; Mesozoic; Paleomagnetism; True Polar Wander; Turkey; Ukraine

Indexed keywords

BLACK SEA; EARLY CRETACEOUS; EARLY JURASSIC; EARTH'S CRUST; EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN; EURASIA; EURASIAN PLATES; JURASSIC; LOWER CRETACEOUS; MESOZOIC; PLATE TECTONICS; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TIME SPAN; UKRAINE;

GEOMAGNETISM;

TECTONICS;

AFRICAN PLATE; APPARENT POLAR WANDER PATH; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; EURASIAN PLATE; JURASSIC-CRETACEOUS BOUNDARY; PALEOLATITUDE; PALEOMAGNETISM; PLATE TECTONICS; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TETHYS;

AFRICA; BLACK SEA; EURASIA; TURKEY; UKRAINE;

EID: 77954659411     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.04.052     Document Type: Article

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