High-resolution magnetostratigraphy of four sediment cores from the Greenland Sea - I. Identification of the Mono Lake excursion, Laschamp and Biwa I/Jamaica geomagnetic polarity events

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 131, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 310-324

  Nowaczyk, Norbert R ^a,c   Antonow, Martin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

^c GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biwa I event; Brunhes chron; Greenland sea; Laschamp event; Magnetostratigraphy; Mono lake excursion

Indexed keywords

MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; POLARITY EVENTS;

GREENLAND SEA;

EID: 0031429089     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.1997.tb01224.x     Document Type: Article

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