Palaeomagnetism of the loess/palaeosol sequence in Viatovo (NE Bulgaria) in the Danube basin

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 167, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 71-83

  Jordanova, Diana ^a   Hus, Jozef ^b   Evlogiev, Jordan ^c   Geeraerts, Raoul ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (Bulgaria)

^b ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF BELGIUM   (Belgium)

^c GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Bulgaria; IRM acquisition; IRM component unmixing; Jaramillo and Olduvai subchronozones; Loess palaeosol; Magnetostratigraphy; Matuyama Brunhes boundary; Viscous remanence

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CURVE FITTING; MAGNETITE; OPTIMIZATION; REMANENCE; STRATIGRAPHY;

GEOMAGNETIC POLARITY; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; PALEOMAGNETISM; PALEOSOL SEQUENCE;

GEOMAGNETISM;

ALGORITHM; DEMAGNETIZATION; LOESS; MAGNETIC REVERSAL; MAGNETITE; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; PALEOMAGNETISM; PALEOSOL; REMANENT MAGNETIZATION; TOPSOIL; VISCOSITY;

BULGARIA; DANUBE BASIN; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 42749093928     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2008.02.008     Document Type: Article

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