Paleomagnetic study of the Paleocene-Eocene Tarawan Chalk and Esna Shale: Dual polarity remagnetizations of Cenozoic sediments in the Nile Valley (Egypt)

Micropaleontology

Volumn 49, Issue SUPPLEMENT 1, 2003, Pages 139-146

  Kent, Dennis V ^a,b   Dupuis, Christian ^c  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^c Mons Polytechnics   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC; CHALK; PALEOCENE-EOCENE BOUNDARY; PALEOMAGNETISM; REMAGNETIZATION;

EGYPT;

EID: 0042090570     PISSN: 00262803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/49.Suppl_1.139     Document Type: Article

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