238U-230Th dating of a geomagnetic excursion in Quaternary basalts of the Albuquerque Volcanoes Field, New Mexico (USA)

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 17, 1996, Pages 2271-2274

  Peate, D W ^a,c   Chen, J H ^a   Wasserburg, G J ^a,b   Papanastassiou, D A ^a,b   Geissman, J W ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETITE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MINERALS; RADIOISOTOPES; ROCKS; THALLIUM; URANIUM; VOLCANIC ROCKS; VOLCANOES;

GEOMAGNETIC EXCURSION; ISOCHRON; POLARITY EVENTS; QUATERNARY BASALTS; THERMAL IONIZATION MASS SPECTROMETRY;

GEOMAGNETISM;

BRUHNES CHRON; GEOMAGNETIC EXCURSION; LAVA FLOW; POLARITY EVENT; QUATERNARY; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

USA, NEW MEXICO, ALBUQUERQUE VOLCANOES FIELD;

EID: 0030207088     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL02064     Document Type: Article

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