Magnetostratigraphic investigations on an Emeishan basalt section in western Guizhou province, China

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 163, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 1-14

  Huang, Kainian ^a,b   Opdyke, Neil D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Basalts; Guizhou China; Magnetostratigraphy; Yangtze platform

Indexed keywords

CHINA;

BASALT; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; PERMIAN;

CHINA;

EID: 0032448177     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(98)00169-1     Document Type: Article

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