Tectonic deformation of the southeastern tip of the Indochina Peninsula during its southward displacement in the Cenozoic time

Gondwana Research

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 615-627

  Otofuji, Yo ichiro ^a   Tung, Van Duc ^b   Fujihara, Makoto ^a   Tanaka, Masayuki ^a   Yokoyama, Masahiko ^a   Kitada, Kazuya ^c   Zaman, Haider ^d  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b GRADUATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Viet Nam)

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Continent; Cretaceous; Indochina; Paleomagnetism; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC; COLLISION ZONE; CRETACEOUS; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DEMAGNETIZATION; DISPLACEMENT; EURASIAN PLATE; INDIAN PLATE; PLATE CONVERGENCE; PLATE TECTONICS; REMANENT MAGNETIZATION; SHEAR ZONE; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION; TECTONIC SETTING;

INDOCHINA; KONTUM MASSIF; VIET NAM;

EID: 84863870257     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2011.09.015     Document Type: Article

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