Geomagnetic excursions reflect an aborted polarity state

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 274, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 472-478

  Valet, Jean Pierre ^a   Plenier, Guillaume ^a   Herrero Bervera, E ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

geomagnetic excursions; geomagnetic polarity time scale; geomagnetic reversals; geomagnetism; magnetostratigraphy; paleomagnetism

Indexed keywords

DIPOLE FIELDS; GEOMAGNETIC EXCURSIONS; GEOMAGNETIC POLARITY TIME SCALE; GEOMAGNETIC REVERSALS; HIGH-TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; PALEOMAGNETISM;

GEOMAGNETISM;

MAGNETISM;

BRUNHES CHRON; GEOMAGNETISM; MAGNETIC REVERSAL; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; MATUYAMA CHRON; PALEOMAGNETISM; TIMESCALE; VIRTUAL GEOMAGNETIC POLE;

EID: 52749086020     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.07.056     Document Type: Article

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