Anomalous directions of the natural remanent magnetization in Late Pleistocene marine sediments from the coast of Mauritania (West Africa)

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 81-100

  Haag, Maja ^a   Paterne, Martine ^b   Pujol, Claude ^c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c Lab Chim Organique O   (France)

Author keywords

Anomalous magnetization directions; Climatic changes; Geomagnetic field excursions events

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETIC REVERSAL; MARINE SEDIMENT; PLEISTOCENE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033385198     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9201(99)00070-9     Document Type: Article

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