Paleomagnetism of Upper Vendian sediments from the Winter Coast, White Sea region, Russia: Implications for the paleogeography of Baltica during Neoproterozoic times

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 107, Issue 11, 2002, Pages

  Popov, Viktor ^a   Iosifidi, Alexander ^a   Khramov, Alexei ^a   Tait, Jennifer ^b   Bachtadse, Valerian ^b  

^a All Russia Research Institute of Oil and Geological Prospecting   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Baltica; Palaeomagnetism; Vendian

Indexed keywords

BALTICA; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOMAGNETISM; PROTEROZOIC; REMANENT MAGNETIZATION; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; VENDIAN;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION; WHITE SEA; WHITE SEA COAST; WINTER COAST;

EID: 0038218120     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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