Paleomagnetic polarity reversals in Marinoan (ca. 600 Ma) glacial deposits of Australia: Implications for the duration of low-latitude glaciation in Neoproterozoic time

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 111, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1120-1139

  Sohl, Linda E ^a   Christie Blick, Nicholas ^a   Kent, Dennis V ^a,b  

^a Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITS; MAGNETIC POLARITY; MAGNETISM; STRATIGRAPHY;

AUSTRALIA; GLACIAL DEPOSITS; LITHO-STRATIGRAPHIC; LOW LATITUDES; MARINOAN; NEOPROTEROZOIC; POLARITY REVERSAL; REGIONAL SCALE;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

GLACIAL DEPOSIT; GLACIATION; PALEOMAGNETISM; PROTEROZOIC;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0033407627     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1999)111<1120:PPRIMC>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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