Evidence of widespread Cretaceous remagnetisation in the Iberian Range and its relation with the rotation of Iberia

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 160, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 729-743

  Juarez M T ^a,d   Lowrie, W ^a   Osete, M L ^b   Melendez G ^c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^d Paleomagnetic Laboratory Utrecht   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cretaceous; Iberian Peninsula; Iberian range; Jurassic; Paleomagnetism; Remagnetization; Rotation; Spain

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; JURASSIC; PALEOMAGNETISM;

SPAIN;

EID: 0345561672     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(98)00124-1     Document Type: Article

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