New paleomagnetic results of Paleocene volcanic rocks from the Lhasa block: Tectonic implications for the collision of India and Asia

Tectonophysics

Volumn 490, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 257-266

  Sun, Zhiming ^a,b   Jiang, Wan ^b   Li, Haibing ^c   Pei, Junling ^b   Zhu, Zongmin ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Collision; Lhasa block; Paleocene; Paleomagnetic

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL SHORTENING; EURASIA; LHASA BLOCK; PALEOCENE; PALEOMAGNETIC DIRECTIONS; RHYOLITIC; STEPWISE THERMAL DEMAGNETIZATION; TECTONIC IMPLICATIONS; TEMPERATURE CHARACTERISTIC; TILT CORRECTION;

DEMAGNETIZATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; POLES; VOLCANOES;

VOLCANIC ROCKS;

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; DEMAGNETIZATION; PALEOCENE; PALEOLATITUDE; PALEOMAGNETISM; REMANENT MAGNETIZATION; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION; TECTONIC ROTATION; VOLCANIC ROCK;

CHINA; EURASIA; LHASA MOUNTAINS; XIZANG;

EID: 77955013538     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2010.05.011     Document Type: Article

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