Application of Bingham statistics to a paleopole data set: Towards a better definition of APWP trends?

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 146, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 97-106

  Cederquist, D P ^a   Mac Niocaill, C ^a   Van Der Voo, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Apparent polar wandering; North America; Paleomagnetism; Pole positions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003054553     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0012-821x(96)00225-7     Document Type: Article

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