High-resolution magnetostratigraphy of four sediment cores from the Greenland Sea - II. Rock magnetic and relative palaeointensity data

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 131, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 325-334

  Nowaczyk, Norbert R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

ARM; Brunhes chron; IRM; Palaeointensity; Polarity reversals; Rock magnetism

Indexed keywords

INTENSITY; MAGNETIC REVERSALS; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; PALAEOMAGNETISM;

GREENLAND SEA;

EID: 0031428014     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.1997.tb01225.x     Document Type: Article

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