Improved Late Cretaceous and early Cenozoic Paleomagnetic apparent polar wander path for the Pacific plate

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 262, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 1-20

  Beaman, Melissa ^a,b   Sager, William W ^a   Acton, Gary D ^c   Lanci, Luca ^d,e   Pares, Josep ^f  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BP AMERICA INC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

^e RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

apparent polar wander; hotspots; Pacific plate; paleomagnetism; plate tectonics

Indexed keywords

APPARENT POLAR WANDER PATH; MAGNETIC ANOMALY; PALEOMAGNETISM;

GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEOMAGNETISM; TECTONICS;

SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS;

APPARENT POLAR WANDER PATH; CENOZOIC; CRETACEOUS; GEODYNAMICS; HOT SPOT; MAGNETIC ANOMALY; PACIFIC PLATE; PALEOMAGNETISM; PLATE TECTONICS; POLAR MOTION;

EID: 34648843401     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.05.036     Document Type: Article

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