Pre-Rodinia supercontinent Nuna shaping up: A global synthesis with new paleomagnetic results from North China

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 353-354, Issue , 2012, Pages 145-155

  Zhang, Shihong ^a   Li, Zheng Xiang ^b,c   Evans, David A D ^d   Wu, Huaichun ^a   Li, Haiyan ^a   Dong, Jin ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

North China Block; Nuna; Paleomagnetism; Reconstruction; Supercontinent; Xiong'er Group

Indexed keywords

NORTH CHINA BLOCKS; NUNA; PALEOMAGNETISM; SUPERCONTINENTS; XIONG'ER GROUP;

DEMAGNETIZATION; GEOMAGNETISM; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; REMANENCE;

TECTONICS;

DATA SET; DEMAGNETIZATION; HEMATITE; LOW TEMPERATURE; MAGNETITE; PALEOMAGNETISM; PRECAMBRIAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REMANENT MAGNETIZATION; RODINIA;

CHINA; NORTH CHINA BLOCK;

EID: 84865854401     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.07.034     Document Type: Article

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