Reversal asymmetry in Mesoproterozoic overprinting of the 1.88-Ga Gunflint Formation, Ontario, Canada: Non-dipole effects or apparent polar wander?

Tectonophysics

Volumn 377, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 7-32

  Schmidt, Phillip W ^a   Williams, George E ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Asymmetry; Gunflint Iron Formation; Keweenawan; Palaeomagnetism; Palaeoproterozoic; Reversals

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRY; MAGNETIC REVERSAL; OVERPRINTING; PALEOMAGNETISM; POLAR WANDERING; PROTEROZOIC;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO; THUNDER BAY;

EID: 0347024878     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2003.08.017     Document Type: Article

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