Permian and Triassic palaeolatitudes of the Ukrainian shield with implications for Pangea reconstructions

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 184, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 595-610

  Yuan, Kenneth ^a   Van Der Voo, R ^a   Bazhenov, M L ^b   Bakhmutov, V ^c   Alekhin, V ^d   Hendriks, B W H ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (Ukraine)

^d DONETSK NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

^e NONE

Author keywords

Palaeomagnetism applied to tectonics

Indexed keywords

AR METHOD; DATA SELECTION; EAST-EUROPEAN CRATON; EURASIA; LATE TRIASSIC; NEW AGE; ORIENTED SAMPLE; PALAEOMAGNETISM APPLIED TO TECTONICS; PERMIAN; RELIABILITY CRITERION; SOUTH AMERICA; TRIASSIC;

DATA REDUCTION; GEOMAGNETISM; TECTONICS;

MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS;

PALEOLATITUDE; PALEOMAGNETISM; PANGAEA; PERMIAN; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION; TRIASSIC;

UKRAINE; UKRAINIAN SHIELD;

EID: 78751547534     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04889.x     Document Type: Article

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