Two normal paleomagnetic polarity intervals in the lower Matuyama Chron recorded in the Shungura Formation (Omo Valley, Southwest Ethiopia)

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 262, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 240-256

  Kidane, Tesfaye ^a,b   Otofuji, Yo Ichiro ^a   Brown, Francis H ^c   Takemoto, Kazuhiro ^a   Eshete, Getachew ^b  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethiopia; magnetostratigraphy; paleomagnetism; R union Subchron(s); Shungura Formation

Indexed keywords

MAGHEMITE; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; PALEOMAGNETIC POLARITY; PALEOMAGNETISM;

GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEOMAGNETISM; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETITE; REMANENCE; STRATIGRAPHY;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

FLUVIOLACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; MAGHEMITE; MAGNETITE; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; MATUYAMA CHRON; PALEOMAGNETISM; POLAR WANDERING; REMANENT MAGNETIZATION;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; ETHIOPIA; OMO VALLEY; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 34648825494     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.07.047     Document Type: Article

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