Magnetostratigraphic evidence that 'tiny wiggles' in the oceanic magnetic anomaly record represent geomagnetic paleointensity variations

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 148, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 581-592

  Lanci, Luca ^a   Lowrie, William ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Magnetic field; Magnetostratigraphy; Paleomagnetism; Remanent magnetism; Reversals

Indexed keywords

GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; GEOMAGNETIC REVERSAL; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; OLIGOCENE; PALAEOMAGNETISM; REMANENT MAGNETISM;

ITALY, MARCHE;

EID: 0030810536     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0012-821x(97)00055-1     Document Type: Article

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