Support for an "A-type" Pangea reconstruction from high-fidelity Late Permian and Early to Middle Triassic paleomagnetic data from Argentina

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 116, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Domeier, Mathew ^a   Van Der Voo, Rob ^a,b   Tomezzoli, Renata N ^c   Tohver, Eric ^d   Hendriks, Bart W H ^e   Torsvik, Trond H ^b,e,f,g   Vizan, Haroldo ^c   Dominguez, Ada ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Det Norske Videnskaps Akademi   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^e GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^g UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-TYPE ROCK; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GONDWANA; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOMAGNETISM; PANGAEA; PERMIAN; SHRIMP DATING; TRIASSIC; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; VOLCANIC ROCK;

ARGENTINA;

EID: 84855426308     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JB008495     Document Type: Article

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