Cenozoic clockwise rotation of the Tengchong block, southeastern Tibetan Plateau: A paleomagnetic and geochronologic study

Tectonophysics

Volumn 628, Issue , 2014, Pages 105-122

  Kornfeld, Daniela ^a   Eckert, Sabine ^a   Appel, Erwin ^a   Ratschbacher, Lothar ^b   Sonntag, Benita Lisette ^b   Pfänder, Jörg A ^b   Ding, Lin ^c   Liu, Deliang ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Crustal rotation; Eastern Himalayan Syntaxis; Geochronology; Paleomagnetism; Tengchong block; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

CLOCKS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEOMAGNETISM; MAGNETITE; STRAIN RATE;

EASTERN HIMALAYAN SYNTAXIS; LOW-GRADE METAMORPHISM; MAGNETIC COMPONENTS; MAGNETIC OVERPRINTS; PALEOMAGNETIC DATA; PALEOMAGNETISM; TENGCHONG BLOCK; TIBETAN PLATEAU;

ROTATION;

BLOCK ROTATION; CENOZOIC; CRUSTAL MOVEMENT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GPS; LOW GRADE METAMORPHISM; PALEOMAGNETISM; REMAGNETIZATION; REMANENT MAGNETIZATION; STRAIN RATE; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; METAMORPHISM; PLATEAU;

CHINA; HIMALAYAS; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; TENGCHONG BLOCK; YUNNAN;

EID: 84910148142     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2014.04.032     Document Type: Article

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