Palaeomagnetic results from the Cretaceous Bagh Group in the Narmada Basin, central India: evidence of pervasive Deccan remagnetization and its implications for Deccan volcanism

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 133, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 519-528

  Prasad, J N ^a   Patil, S K ^a   Venkateshwarlu, M ^a   Saraf, P D ^a   Tripathi, S C ^b   Rao, D R K ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF GEOMAGNETISM   (India)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; MAGNETIZATION; PALAEOMAGNETISM; REMAGNETIZATION; VOLCANISM;

INDIA, DECCAN TRAPS;

EID: 0031694194     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-246X.1998.00501.x     Document Type: Article

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