Dependence of the duration of geomagnetic polarity reversals on site latitude

Nature

Volumn 428, Issue 6983, 2004, Pages 637-640

  Clement, Bradford M ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; NUMERICAL METHODS; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; SEDIMENTATION; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

GEOMETRICAL REVERSAL MODELS; LATITUDE; NON-DIPOLE FIELDS;

GEOMAGNETISM;

LATITUDE; MAGNETIC REVERSAL; PALEOMAGNETISM; TIMESCALE;

ARTICLE; DIPOLE; GEOMETRY; LATITUDE; MAGNETIC FIELD; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT;

EID: 1942485249     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02459     Document Type: Article

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