Reliability of geomagnetic secular variations recorded in a loess section at Lingtai, north-central China

Science in China, Series D: Earth Sciences

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-9

  Zhu, Rixiang ^a   Guo, Bin ^a   Pan, Yongxin ^a   Liu, Qingsong ^a   Zeman, A ^b   Suchy, V ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Geomagnetic excursion; Geomagnetic secular variations; Loess; VGP scatter

Indexed keywords

GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; LOESS; PALEOMAGNETISM; QUATERNARY; SECULAR VARIATION;

CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU;

EID: 0034106442     PISSN: 10069313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02877826     Document Type: Article

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