Paleomagnetic and paleosecular variation study of the Mt. Cameroon volcanics (0.0-0.25 Ma), Cameroon, West Africa

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 147, Issue 2-3 SPEC.ISS., 2004, Pages 171-182

  Herrero Bervera, Emilo ^a   Ubangoh, Richard ^b   Aka, F T ^b   Valet, Jean Pierre ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b Unit for Geophysical/Volcano Res   (Cameroon)

^c INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

Mt. Cameroon; Paleomagnetic; Paleosecular variation

Indexed keywords

GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; PALEOMAGNETISM; SECULAR VARIATION; VOLCANO;

AFRICA; CAMEROON; MOUNT CAMEROON; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 5144232454     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2004.03.014     Document Type: Article

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