Deep-tow magnetic anomaly study of the Pacific Jurassic Quiet Zone and implications for the geomagnetic polarity reversal timescale and geomagnetic field behavior

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 113, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Tominaga, Masako ^a   Sager, William W ^a   Tivey, Maurice A ^b   Lee, Sang Mook ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; GEOMAGNETISM; MAGNETIC ANOMALY; MAGNETIC REVERSAL; MODELING;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST); PIGAFETTA BASIN;

PIGAFETTA;

EID: 51449098179     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JB005527     Document Type: Article

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