Geomagnetic palaeointensities and astrochronological ages for the Matuyama-Brunhes boundary and the boundaries of the Jaramillo Subchron: Palaeomagnetic and oxygen isotope records from ODP Site 983

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 358, Issue 1768, 2000, Pages 1027-1047

  Channell, J E T ^a   Kleiven, H F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Geomagnetic palaeointensity; Geomagnetic secular variation; Iceland Basin; Jaramillo Subchron; Matuyama Brunhes boundary; ODP Site 983

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347373591     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2000.0572     Document Type: Article

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