Distributions of paleomagnetic directions and poles

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 103, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 313-327

  Kono, Masaru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Azimuth plunge sphere; Fisher distribution; Gauss coefficients; Paleosecular variation

Indexed keywords

GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; PALAEOMAGNETISM; SECULAR VARIATION;

EID: 0031421111     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9201(97)00042-3     Document Type: Article

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