Middle Triassic paleomagnetic data from northern Bulgaria: Constraints on Tethyan magnetostratigraphy and paleogeography

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 160, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 223-237

  Muttoni, Giovanni ^a   Gaetani, Maurizio ^b   Budurov, Kiril ^c   Zagorchev, Ivan ^c   Trifonova, Ekaterina ^c   Ivanova, Daria ^c   Petrounova, Lyudmila ^c   Lowrie, William ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Balkanides; Bulgaria; Magnetostratigraphy; Middle Triassic; Moesia; Paleogeography

Indexed keywords

ANISIAN; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; TETHYS; TRIASSIC;

BULGARIA;

ANISIA; FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 0034662068     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(00)00070-5     Document Type: Article

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