Persistently low Asian paleolatitudes: Implications for the India-Asia collision history

Tectonics

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Dupont Nivet, Guillaume ^a,b   Van Hinsbergen, Douwe J J ^c,d   Torsvik, Trond H ^c,e,f  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Peking University   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^e GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^f UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; TECTONICS; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

CENOZOIC; DATA SETS; DIPOLAR CONTRIBUTION; GEOMAGNETIC FIELDS; IN-LINE; LOW BIAS; NON-RIGIDITY; PALEOGENE SEDIMENTS; PALEOMAGNETIC DATA; STRUCTURAL STUDIES; TECTONIC SHORTENING;

GEOMAGNETISM;

APPARENT POLAR WANDER PATH; CENOZOIC; CONVERGENT MARGIN; DATA SET; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETIC INCLINATION; MAGNETIC INTENSITY; PALEOGENE; PALEOLATITUDE; PALEOMAGNETISM; TECTONIC STRUCTURE;

ASIA; EUROPE; INDIA;

EID: 77955761024     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008TC002437     Document Type: Article

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