Remagne California margin

Tectonics

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 872-882

  Hagstrum, Jonathan T ^a   Sedlock, Richard L ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOCKS; GEOMAGNETISM; MAGNETIZATION; ROCKS; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

CLOCKWISE ROTATION; COAST RANGE OPHIOLITES; CRETACEOUS ROCKS; FRANCISCAN COMPLEX; GEOMAGNETIC FIELDS; PALEOMAGNETIC DATA; PALEOMAGNETIC DIRECTIONS; TECTONIC TRANSPORT;

SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

BURIAL (GEOLOGY); FOREARC BASIN; PALEOMAGNETISM; REMAGNETIZATION; UPLIFT;

MEXICO;

EID: 0032434566     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998tc900009     Document Type: Article

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