Geomagnetic paleosecular variation in Easter Island, the southeast Pacific

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 106, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 93-101

  Miki, Masako ^a   Inokuchi, Hiroo ^a   Yamaguchi, Satoru ^a   Matsuda, Jun Ichi ^b   Nagao, Keisuke ^c   Isezaki, Nobuhiro ^d   Yaskawa, Katsumi ^a,e  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e Osaka Jogakuin College   (Japan)

Author keywords

Easter Island; Geomagnetic paleosecular variation; K Ar rock dating

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; PALAEOMAGNETISM; QUATERNARY; SECULAR VARIATION;

PACIFIC;

EID: 0031816416     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9201(97)00106-4     Document Type: Article

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