Magnetostratigraphy of the Northern Tian Shan foreland, Taxi He section, China

Basin Research

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 101-117

  Li, ChuanXin ^a   Dupont Nivet, Guillaume ^a,b   Guo, ZhaoJie ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC; FORELAND BASIN; MAGNETIC REVERSAL; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; PALEOMAGNETISM; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION; TECTONIC ROTATION; UPLIFT;

TIEN SHAN;

EID: 78751555972     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: 13652117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2010.00475.x     Document Type: Article

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