Palaeosecular variation over the past 5 Myr based on a new generalized database

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 131, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 240-252

  McElhinny, Michael W ^a   McFadden, Phillip L ^b  

^a Gondwana Consultants   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Geomagnetism; Palaeomagnetism; Secular variation

Indexed keywords

PALAEOMAGNETISM; SECULAR VARIATION;

EID: 0031396978     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.1997.tb01219.x     Document Type: Article

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