Magnetic stratigraphy and tectonic rotation of the Middle Eocene Matilija Sandstone and Cozy Dell Shale, Ventura County, California: Implications for sequence stratigraphic correlations

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 163, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 261-273

  Prothero, Donald R ^a   Britt, Justin R ^a  

^a OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Eocene; Magnetostratigraphy; Sequence stratigraphy; Tectonics; Transverse Ranges

Indexed keywords

EOCENE; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; PLATE ROTATION; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032457922     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(98)00192-7     Document Type: Article

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