Paleomagnetic study of the Valle de Santiago volcanics, Michoacan-Guanajuato volcanic field, Mexico

Geofisica Internacional

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 217-230

  Uribe Cifuentes, Rosa María ^a,b   Urrutia Fucugauchi, Jaime ^b  

^a PEMEX   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Michoacan Guanajuato volcanic field; Paleomagnetism; Plio Quaternary; Tectonics; Valle de Santiago

Indexed keywords

BRUNHES CHRON; LINEAMENT; MAAR; PALEOMAGNETISM; POLAR WANDERING; QUATERNARY; VOLCANIC ROCK;

MEXICO; TRANS-MEXICAN VOLCANIC BELT;

EID: 0033497727     PISSN: 00167169     EISSN: 2954436X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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