Short-lived quaternary volcanism in the Perşani Mountains (Romania) revealed by combined K-Ar and paleomagnetic data

Geologica Carpathica

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 333-339

  Panaiotu, Cristian G ^a   Pécskay, Zoltán ^b   Hambach, Ulrich ^c   Seghedi, Ioan ^d   Panaiotu, Cristina E ^a   Tetsumaru, Itaya ^e   Orleanu, Mihai ^f   Szakács, Alexandru ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEODYNAMICS   (Romania)

^e OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^f NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alkali basalts; Carpathians; K Ar data; Magnetic polarity; Paleomagnetism; Per ani Mountains; Quaternary volcanism

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; PALEOMAGNETISM; POTASSIUM-ARGON DATING; QUATERNARY; VOLCANISM;

CARPATHIANS; EURASIA; EUROPE; PERSANI MOUNTAINS; ROMANIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 4444315276     PISSN: 13350552     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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