A nonmarine record of eccentricity forcing through the Upper Triassic of southwest England and its correlation with the Newark Basin astronomically calibrated geomagnetic polarity time scale from the North America

Geology

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 991-994

  Kemp, David B ^a,b   Coe, Angela L ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Neftex Petroleum Consultants Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cyclostratigraphy; Newark Basin; Norian; St. Audrie's Bay; Stratigraphic correlation; Time scale; Triassic

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSTRATIGRAPHY; ECCENTRICITY; GEOMAGNETIC POLARITY; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; TIME SCALE;

CALIBRATION; CORRELATION METHODS; GEOMAGNETISM; ROCKS; STRATIGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

CYCLOSTRATIGRAPHY; ECCENTRICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GEOMAGNETISM; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MAGNETIC REVERSAL; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; NORIAN; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; STRATOTYPE; TRIASSIC;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; NEWARK BASIN; NORTH AMERICA; SAINT AUDRIE'S BAY; SOMERSET; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 37449033744     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G24155A.1     Document Type: Article

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