Trading partners: Tectonic ancestry of southern Africa and western Australia, in Archean supercratons Vaalbara and Zimgarn

Precambrian Research

Volumn 224, Issue , 2013, Pages 11-22

  Smirnov, Aleksey V ^a,b   Evans, David A D ^c   Ernst, Richard E ^d,e   Söderlund, Ulf ^f   Li, Zheng Xiang ^g  

^a Michigan Technological University   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Ernst Geosciences   (Canada)

^e CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^g CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Kaapvaal craton; Paleomagnetism; Paleoproterozoic; Pilbara; Yilgarn; Zimbabve craton

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; CRATON; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; PALEOMAGNETISM; PROTEROZOIC; REMANENT MAGNETIZATION; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION; VIRTUAL GEOMAGNETIC POLE;

AUSTRALIA; KAAPVAAL CRATON; PILBARA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA; YILGARN BLOCK; ZIMBABWE CRATON;

EID: 84867584189     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2012.09.020     Document Type: Article

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