Direct measurement of magnetic reversal polarity boundaries in a cross-section of oceanic crust

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 19, 1998, Pages 3631-3634

  Tivey, Maurice A ^a   Paul Johnson, H ^b   Fleutelot, Corinne ^b   Hussenoeder, Stefan ^c   Lawrence, Roisin ^a   Waters, Cheryl ^d   Wooding, Beecher ^a,e  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLACEMENT; MAGNETIC ANOMALY; MAGNETIC REVERSAL; MAGNETIZATION; OCEANIC CRUST;

MAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; MAGNETIZATION; TECTONICS;

CRUSTAL MAGNETIZATION; MAGNETIC REVERSAL POLARITY BOUNDARIES; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS;

GEOMAGNETISM;

EID: 0032173461     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL02752     Document Type: Article

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