Paleomagnetic results from the Early Cretaceous Zenong Group volcanic rocks, Cuoqin, Tibet, and their paleogeographic implications

Gondwana Research

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 461-469

  Chen, Weiwei ^a   Yang, Tianshui ^a,b   Zhang, Shihong ^a,b   Yang, Zhenyu ^c   Li, Haiyan ^a   Wu, Huaichun ^a,d   Zhang, Junhong ^a   Ma, Yiming ^a   Cai, Fulong ^e  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

^d CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^e INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Crustal shortening; Early Cretaceous; Lhasa terrane; Neotethys; Paleomagnetism

Indexed keywords

APPARENT POLAR WANDER PATH; CRETACEOUS; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; DEMAGNETIZATION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; PALEOGENE; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOLATITUDE; PALEOMAGNETISM; VOLCANIC ROCK;

CHINA; CUOQIN BASIN; INDIA; LHASA TERRANE; XIZANG;

EID: 84863878188     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2011.07.019     Document Type: Article

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