Position of the Lhasa terrane prior to India-Asia collision derived from palaeomagnetic inclinations of 53 Ma old dykes of the Linzhou Basin: Constraints on the age of collision and post-collisional shortening within the Tibetan Plateau

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 182, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1199-1215

  Liebke, Ursina ^a   Appel, Erwin ^a   Ding, Lin ^b   Neumann, Udo ^a   Antolin, Borja ^a   Xu, Qiang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Continental margins: convergent; Palaeomagnetism applied to tectonics; Rock and mineral magnetism

Indexed keywords

COERCIVITIES; CONFIDENCE LIMIT; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; DYKE EMPLACEMENT; EURASIA; IGNIMBRITES; LACUSTRINE SEDIMENTS; LHASA TERRANE; PALAEOMAGNETISM; REMANENT MAGNETIZATION; TIBETAN PLATEAU; TILT ANGLE; TILT CORRECTION; TITANOMAGNETITES;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; GEOMAGNETISM; MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; REMANENCE; SILICATE MINERALS; TECTONICS;

MINERALS;

COLLISION ZONE; CRETACEOUS; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; DEMAGNETIZATION; DIKE; EMPLACEMENT; EOCENE; IGNIMBRITE; MAFIC ROCK; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC INCLINATION; PALEOLATITUDE; PALEOMAGNETISM; REMANENT MAGNETIZATION; TITANOMAGNETITE;

CHINA; EURASIA; INDIA; LINZHOU BASIN; XIZANG;

EID: 77955765935     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04698.x     Document Type: Article

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