High-resolution magnetostratigraphic and biostratigraphic study of Ethiopian traps-related products in Oligocene sediments from the Indian Ocean

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 206, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 493-508

  Touchard, Yannick ^a   Rochette, Pierre ^a   Aubry, Marie Pierre ^b   Michard, Annie ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethiopian traps; Indian Ocean; Magnetostratigraphy; Nannofossil stratigraphy; Oligocene; Tephra

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; NANOFOSSIL; OLIGOCENE; PALEOMAGNETISM; TEPHRA; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY; VOLCANISM;

ETHIOPIA; INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 0037441686     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(02)01084-1     Document Type: Article

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