Tertiary paleomagnetic data from northwestern Yunnan, China: further evidence for large clockwise rotation of the Indochina block and its tectonic implications

Rowley, 1996, Age of initiation of collision between India and Asia: a review of stratigraphic data, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 145, 1, 10.1016/S0012-821X(96)00201-4 Molnar, 1975, Cenozoic tectonics of Asia: effects of a continental collision, Science, 189, 419, 10.1126/science.189.4201.419 Tapponnier, 1982, Propagating extrusion tectonics in Asia: new insights from simple experiments with plasticine, Geology, 10, 611, 10.1130/0091-7613(1982)10<611:PETIAN>2.0.CO;2 Peltzer, 1988, Formation and evolution of strike–slip faults, rifts, and basins during the India–Asia collision: an experimental approach, J. Geophys. Res., 93, 15085, 10.1029/JB093iB12p15085 England, 1985, Role of lithospheric strength heterogneities in the tectonics of Tibet and neighbouring regions, Nature, 315, 297, 10.1038/315297a0 Houseman, 1993, Crustal thickening versus lateral expulsion in the Indian–Asian continental collision, J. Geophys. Res., 98, 12233, 10.1029/93JB00443 Zhang, 1984, An outline of the tectonics of China, Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 95, 295, 10.1130/0016-7606(1984)95<295:AOOTPT>2.0.CO;2 Sato, 1999, Paleomagnetic study of middle Cretceous rocks from Yunlong, western Yunnan, China: evidence of southward displacement of Indochina, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 165, 1, 10.1016/S0012-821X(98)00257-X Funahara, 1993, Clockwise rotation of the Red River fault inferred from paleomagnetic study of Cretaceous rocks in the Shan–Thai–Malay block of western Yunnan, China, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 117, 29, 10.1016/0012-821X(93)90115-P Huang, 1993, Paleomagnetic results from Cretaceous and Jurassic rocks of South and Southwest Yunnan: evidence for large clockwise rotations in the Indochina and Shan–Thai–Malay terranes, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 117, 507, 10.1016/0012-821X(93)90100-N Haihong, 1995, Paleomagnetic evidence for clockwise rotation of the Simao region since the Cretaceous: a consequence of India–Asia collision, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 134, 203, 10.1016/0012-821X(95)00118-V Tapponnier, 1990, The Ailao Shan/Red River matamorphic belt Tertiary left-lateral shear between Indochina and South China, Nature, 343, 431, 10.1038/343431a0 Leloup, 1993, Structural, petrological and thermal evolution of a Tertiary ductile strike–slip shear zone, Diancang Shan, Yunnan, J. Geophys. Res., 98, 6715, 10.1029/92JB02791 Leloup, 1995, The Ailao Shan-Red River shear zone (Yunnan, China), Tertiary transform boundary of Indochina, Tectonophysics, 251, 3, 10.1016/0040-1951(95)00070-4 Schärer, 1990, Intraplate tectonics in Asia: a precise age for large-scale Miocene movements along the Ailao Shan-Red River shear zone, China, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 97, 65, 10.1016/0012-821X(90)90099-J Schärer, 1994, Duration of strike–slip movements in large shear zones: the Red River belt, China, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 126, 379, 10.1016/0012-821X(94)90119-8 Lacassin, 1996, Tertiary deformation and metamorphism SE of Tibet: the folded Tiger-leap décollement of NW Yunnan, China, Tectonics, 15, 605, 10.1029/95TC03749 Lacassin, 1997, Tertiary diachronic extrusion and deformation of western Indochina: structural and 40Ar/39Ar evidence from NW Thailand, J. Geophys. Res., 102, 10013, 10.1029/96JB03831 J.S. Ren, C.F. Jiang, Z.K. Zhang, D.Y. Qin, The Geotectonic Evolution of China, Science Press, Beijing, 1980 (in Chinese). Wu, 1995, The Changning–Menglian suture zone; a segment of the major Cathaysian–Gondwana divide in South Asia, Tectonophysics, 242, 267, 10.1016/0040-1951(94)00210-Z Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources of Yunnan Province, Regional Geology of Yunnan Province, Geological Memoirs, Series 1, No. 21, Geol. Publishing House, Beijing, 1990. Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources of Yunnan Province, Stratigraphy (lithostatic) of Yunnan Province, China University of Geosciences Press, Wuhan, 1996. IAGA Division V, Working Group 8, International Geomagnetic Reference Field, 1995 revision, J. Geomagn. Geoelectr. 47 (1995) 1257–1261. J.D.A. Zijderveld, Ac demagnetization of rocks: analysis of results, in: D.W. Collinson, K.M. Creer, S.K. Runcorn (Eds.), Methods in Paleomagnetism, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1967, pp. 254–286. Kirschvink, 1980, The least-squares line and plane and the analysis of palaeomagnetic data, Geophys. J. R. Astron. Soc., 62, 699, 10.1111/j.1365-246X.1980.tb02601.x Fisher, 1953, Dispersion on a sphere, Proc. R. Soc. London Ser., A217, 295, 10.1098/rspa.1953.0064 Lowrie, 1990, Identification of ferromagnetic minerals in a rock by coercivity and unblocking temperature properties, Geophys. Res. Lett., 17, 159, 10.1029/GL017i002p00159 McElhinny, 1964, Statistical significance of the fold test in palaeomagnetism, Geophys. J. R. Astron. Soc., 8, 338, 10.1111/j.1365-246X.1964.tb06300.x McFadden, 1990, A new fold test for palaeomagnetic studies, Geophys. J. Int., 103, 163, 10.1111/j.1365-246X.1990.tb01761.x Enkin, 1991, A Cretaceous pole from South China, and the Mesozoic hairpin turn of the Eurasian apparent polar wander path, J. Geophys. Res., 96, 4007, 10.1029/90JB01904 Besse, 1991, Revised and synthetic apparent polar wander paths of the African, Eurasian, North American and Indian Plates, and true polar wander since 200 Ma, J. Geophys. Res., 96, 4029, 10.1029/90JB01916 Huang, 1992, Paleomagnetism of Cretaceous rocks from eastern Qiangtang terrane of Tibet, J. Geophys. Res., 97, 1789, 10.1029/91JB02747 Funahara, 1992, Paleomagnetic study of Cretaceous rocks from the Yangtze block, central Yunnan, China: implications for the India–Asia collision, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 113, 77, 10.1016/0012-821X(92)90212-E E. Wang, B.C. Burchfiel, L.H. Royden, C. Liangzhong, C. Jishen, L. Wenxin, C. Zhiliang, Late Cenozoic Xianshuihe-Xiaojiang, Red River, and Dali fault systems of southwestern Sichuan and central Yunnan, China, Geol. Soc. Am. Spec. Paper, 1998. Yang, 1993, Paleomagnetic study of Permian and Mesozoic sedimentary rocks from Northern Thailand supports the extrusion model for Indochina, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 117, 525, 10.1016/0012-821X(93)90101-E Yang, 1995, Lower-Middle Jurassic paleoemagnetic data from the Mae Sot area (Thailand): paleogeographic evolution and deformation history of Southeastern Asia, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 136, 325, 10.1016/0012-821X(95)00192-F M. Tamai, Y. Otofuji, Y.L.Z. Lu, Y. Liu, Paleomagnetic study of Cretaceous rocks from Xichang, southwestern Sichuan, China: areal extent of tectonic stiffness for the Yangtze block, 30th IGC Abstracts, vol. 1, 1996, p. 236. Huang, 1992, Paleomagnetism of Cretaceous to Lower Tertiary rocks from Southwestern Sichuan: a revisit, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 112, 29, 10.1016/0012-821X(92)90004-F Otofuji, 1998, Tectonic deformation of the southwestern part of the Yangtze craton inferred from paleomagnetism, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 156, 47, 10.1016/S0012-821X(98)00009-0 Halim, 1998, New Cretaceous and Early Tertiary paleomagnetic results from Xining–Lanzhou basin, Kunlun and Qiangtang blocks, China: implication on the geodynamic evolution of Asia, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 21025, 10.1029/98JB01118 Briais, 1993, Updated interpretation of magnetic anomalies and seafloor spreading stages in the South China Sea: implication for the Tertiary tectonics of Southeast Asia, J. Geophys. Res., 98, 6299, 10.1029/92JB02280