Palaeomagnetism of late Cretaceous sediments from southern Tibet: Evidence for the consistent palaeolatitudes of the southern margin of Eurasia prior to the collision with India

Gondwana Research

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 53-63

  Sun, Zhiming ^a,b   Pei, Junling ^a   Li, Haibing ^b   Xu, Wei ^a   Jiang, Wan ^a   Zhu, Zongmin ^c   Wang, Xisheng ^a   Yang, Zhenyu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^c CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Collision; Convergence; Late Cretaceous; Lhasa terrane; Paleomagnetism

Indexed keywords

EID: 82955232379     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2011.08.003     Document Type: Article

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