A stacked record of relative geomagnetic paleointensity for the past 270 kyr from the western continental rise of the Antarctic Peninsula

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 252, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 162-179

  Macrì, Patrizia ^a   Sagnotti, Leonardo ^a   Lucchi, Renata Giulia ^b   Rebesco, Michele ^c  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b Departmet d'Estratigrafia   (Spain)

^c ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OCEANOGRAFIA E DI GEOFISICA SPERIMENTALE OGS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Environmental magnetism; Geomagnetic relative paleointensity; Paleomagnetism

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL RISE; ENVIRONMENTAL MAGNETISM; GRAVITY CORES; RECONSTRUCT RELATIVE PALEOINTENSITY;

GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; LITHOLOGY; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

GEOMAGNETISM;

GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; GEOMAGNETISM; ICE SHEET; LITHOLOGY; MAGNETIC INTENSITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOMAGNETISM; ROCK;

EID: 33751033928     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2006.09.037     Document Type: Article

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