Palaeosecular variation recorded by lava flows over the past five million years

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

Volumn 354, Issue 1704, 1996, Pages 89-141

  Johnson, Catherine L ^a,b   Constable, Catherine G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 3242766231     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1996.0004     Document Type: Article

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