A paleomagnetic study from the Late Jurassic volcanics (155Ma), North China: Implications for the width of Mongol-Okhotsk Ocean

Tectonophysics

Volumn 510, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 370-380

  Junling, Pei ^a,b   Zhiming, Sun ^a   Jing, Liu ^a,c   Jian, Liu ^a   Xisheng, Wang ^a   Zhenyu, Yang ^a   Yue, Zhao ^a   Haibing, Li ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

^b State Lab for Continental Tectonics and Dynamics   (China)

^c East China Mineral Exploration and Development   (China)

Author keywords

Mongol Okhotsk Ocean; North China Block; Paleomagnetic; Siberia

Indexed keywords

FIELD DIRECTIONS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; JURASSIC; LOW TEMPERATURES; MONGOL-OKHOTSK OCEAN; NORTH CHINA; NORTH CHINA BLOCKS; PALEOMAGNETIC; SIBERIA; STEPWISE THERMAL DEMAGNETIZATION; TWO-COMPONENT; VOLCANICS;

DEMAGNETIZATION; LEAD;

TECTONICS;

ARGON-ARGON DATING; DEMAGNETIZATION; DISPLACEMENT; HIGH TEMPERATURE; JURASSIC; LOW TEMPERATURE; PALEOLATITUDE; PALEOMAGNETISM; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

CHINA; NORTH CHINA BLOCK;

EID: 80053230711     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2011.08.008     Document Type: Article

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