Early Cretaceous to present latitude of the central proto-Tibetan Plateau: A paleomagnetic synthesis with implications for Cenozoic tectonics, paleogeography, and climate of Asia

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 507, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-21

  Lippert, Peter C ^a   Van Hinsbergen, Douwe J J ^b   Dupont Nivet, Guillaume ^b,c,d  

^a The University of Arizona   (United States)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^d Peking University   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC TECTONICS; EARLY CRETACEOUS; PALEOGEOGRAPHY;

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRETACEOUS; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; GONDWANA; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MAGNETIC SURVEY; OCEAN BASIN; OCEANIC CRUST; PALEOLATITUDE; PALEOMAGNETISM; PLATE TECTONICS; POLAR WANDERING; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING;

CHINA; HIMALAYAS; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84907225201     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2014.2507(01)     Document Type: Article

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