A new towed marine vector magnetometer: Methods and results from a Central Pacific cruise

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 172, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 115-129

  Engels, Martin ^a   Barckhausen, Udo ^a   Gee, Jeffrey S ^b  

^a FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES BGR   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetic anomalies: modelling and interpretation; Marinemagnetics and palaeomagnetics; Mid oceanridge processes; PacificOcean

Indexed keywords

COCOS PLATE; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA INTERPRETATION; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; GEOMAGNETISM; GEOMETRY; LINEATION; MAGNETIC ANOMALY; MAGNETOMETER; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; NAZCA PLATE; PACIFIC PLATE; SEAFLOOR; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (CENTRAL);

EID: 37449013440     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03601.x     Document Type: Article

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