Palaeointensity of West Greenland Palaeocene basalts: Asymmetric intensity around the C27n-C26r transition

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 118, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 53-64

  Riisager, Peter ^a,b   Abrahamsen, Niels ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b DANISH LITHOSPHERE CENTRE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Geomagnetic transition; Palaeocene; Palaeointensity; Palaeomagnetism; Thellier method; West Greenland

Indexed keywords

BASALT; PALEOCENE; PALEOMAGNETISM;

GREENLAND;

EID: 0034096521     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9201(99)00125-9     Document Type: Article

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