Palaeodirectional and palaeointensity results of Paleocene and Eocene basalts from West Greenland

Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 69-78

  Riisager, Janna ^a   Riisager, Peter ^b   Perrin, Mireille ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER 2   (France)

^b DANISH LITHOSPHERE CENTRE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Magnetostratigraphy; Palaeointensity; Palaeomagnetism; Tertiary; Thellier method; West Greenland

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038139098     PISSN: 00116297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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