Evidence for late paleozoic and mesozoic non-dipole fields provides an explanation for the Pangaea reconstruction problems

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 187, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 71-81

  Van Der Voo, Rob ^a   Torsvik, Trond H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Magnetic field; Paleolatitude; Paleomagnetism; Pangaea reconstruction

Indexed keywords

GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; MESOZOIC; PALEOLATITUDE; PALEOMAGNETISM; PALEOZOIC; PANGAEA; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 0035015053     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(01)00285-0     Document Type: Article

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