Magnetostratigraphy of interfingering upper Cretaceous-Paleocene marine and continental strata of the Williston Basin, North Dakota and Montana

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 361, Issue , 2002, Pages 57-74

  Lund, Steve P ^a   Hartman, Joseph H ^b   Banerjee, Subir K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of North Dakota   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMATITE; LITHOLOGY; MAGNETISM;

ILMENO HEMATITES; LOW CURIE TEMPERATURE; MAGNETIC MINERALS; MAGNETIC STUDIES; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; NATURAL REMANENT MAGNETIZATION; PALEOMAGNETIC DATA; UPPER CRETACEOUS;

MAGNETIC POLARITY;

CONTINENTAL CRUST; CRETACEOUS-PALEOGENE BOUNDARY; GEOCHEMICAL SURVEY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; MAGNETIC MINERAL; MAGNETIZATION; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; NATURAL REMANENT MAGNETIZATION; PALYNOLOGY; TRANSGRESSION;

ENGLAND; LUDLOW; NORTH DAKOTA; SHROPSHIRE; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; WILLISTON BASIN;

EID: 17244367686     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2361-2.57     Document Type: Article

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