Alpine remagnetization and tectonic rotations in the French Pyrenees

Geologische Rundschau

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 658-674

  Storetvedt, K M ^a   Marton E ^b   Abranches, M C ^c   Rother, K ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b GEOLOGICAL AND GEOPHYSICAL INSTITUTE OF HUNGARY   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^d Ingenieurbüro Knoll ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

French Pyrenees; Remagnetization; Rotations of Iberia; Tectonomagnetic events; Upper Cretaceous rocks

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; MAGNETIC DECLINATION; PALEOMAGNETISM; ROTATION; TECTONICS;

FRANCE;

EID: 0344849478     PISSN: 00167835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s005310050238     Document Type: Article

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