Unraveling the early-middle Paleozoic paleogeography of Kazakhstan on the basis of Ordovician and Devonian paleomagnetic results

Gondwana Research

Volumn 22, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 974-991

  Bazhenov, Mikhail L ^a   Levashova, Natalia M ^a   Degtyarev, Kirill E ^a   Van der Voo, Rob ^b   Abrajevitch, Alexandra V ^c   McCausland, Phil J A ^d  

^a RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Accretionary tectonics; Central Asian Orogenic Belt; Kazakhstania; Oroclinal bending; Paleomagnetism

Indexed keywords

ISLAND ARC; MAGNETIC SURVEY; OROGENIC BELT; PALEOLATITUDE; PALEOMAGNETISM; PALEOZOIC; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING;

KAZAKHSTAN;

EID: 84866044226     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2012.02.023     Document Type: Article

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