High-resolution record of geomagnetic secular variation from late Pleistocene Lake Lisan sediments (paleo Dead Sea)

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 161, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 145-160

  Marco, Shmuel ^a   Ron, Hagai ^b   McWilliams, Michael O ^c   Stein, Mordechai ^d  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b GEOPHYSICAL INSTITUTE OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Lacustrine sediment; Magnetic inclination; Paleomagnetism; Pleistocene; Secular variations

Indexed keywords

LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PALEOMAGNETISM; PLEISTOCENE; SECULAR VARIATION;

DEAD SEA;

EID: 0032448937     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(98)00146-0     Document Type: Article

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