High-resolution evidence for dynamic transitional geomagnetic field behaviour from a Miocene reversal, McMurdo Sound, Ross Sea, Antarctica

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 59, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 815-824

  Roberts, Andrew P ^a   Bakrania, Anisch ^a   Florindo, Fabio ^a,b   Rowan, Christopher J ^a   Fielding, Christopher R ^c   Powell, Ross D ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^d NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Geomagnetic field behaviour; Glacial processes; Paleomagnetism; Polarity reversal

Indexed keywords

GLACIOMARINE DEPOSIT; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETIC REVERSAL; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MIOCENE; PALEOMAGNETISM; REMANENT MAGNETIZATION; SEDIMENT CORE;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; MCMURDO SOUND; ROSS SEA; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 34547994195     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03352744     Document Type: Article

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