New paleomagnetic result from the Ethiopian flood basalts in the Abbay (Blue Nile) and Kessem gorges

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 203, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 353-367

  Kidane, Tesfaye ^a,b   Abebe, Bekele ^b   Courtillot, Vincent ^c   Herrero, Emilio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^c INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

Ethiopia; Flood basalts; Oligocene; Paleomagnetism; Pole positions

Indexed keywords

FLOOD BASALT; OLIGOCENE; PALEOMAGNETISM; REMANENT MAGNETIZATION;

ETHIOPIA;

EID: 0037107877     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(02)00834-8     Document Type: Article

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