Reassembling the Paleogene-Eocene North Atlantic igneous province: New paleomagnetic constraints from the Isle of Mull, Scotland

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 272, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 464-475

  Ganerød, Morgan ^a,b   Smethurst, Mark A ^a   Rousse, Sonia ^c   Torsvik, Trond H ^a,d   Prestvik, Tore ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c Environmental Research Observatory (ORE) HYBAM Centre IRD d'Ile de France   (France)

^d Physics of Geological Processes   (Norway)

Author keywords

British Tertiary Igneous Province; North Atlantic Igneous Province; paleomagnetic poles; tertiary

Indexed keywords

EURASIA; GENERAL (CO); GREEN LAND; IGNEOUS PROVINCE; INTER COMPARISON; LATITUDE (CO); LAVA FLOWS; NORTH ATLANTIC (NA); PALEOGENE; PALEOMAGNETIC DATA; PALEOMAGNETIC POLES; RE EVALUATION; SCOTLAND;

VOLCANIC ROCKS;

POLES;

BLOCK ROTATION; DATA SET; EOCENE; IGNEOUS PROVINCE; PALEOGENE; PALEOMAGNETISM;

ARCTIC; ARGYLL AND BUTE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); EAST GREENLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREENLAND; MULL; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WEST GREENLAND; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 47949112558     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.05.016     Document Type: Article

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