Multiple Brunhes Chron excursions recorded in the West Eifel (Germany) volcanics: Support for long-held mantle control over the non-axial dipole field

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 169, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 28-40

  Singer, Brad S ^a   Hoffman, Kenneth A ^a,b   Schnepp, Elisabeth ^c   Guillou, Hervé ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Department of Physics ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEOBEN   (Austria)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Argon; Excursion; Geochronology; Lava; Non dipole field; Paleomagnetism

Indexed keywords

MAGNETISM; VOLCANOES;

ARGON; AXIAL DIPOLE; EXCURSION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEOMAGNETIC FIELDS; GERMANY; LAVA; LAVA FLOWS; MIDDLE EAST; NON-DIPOLE FIELD; PALEO INTENSITIES; PALEOMAGNETISM; PLEISTOCENE; SOUTH-EAST ASIA; VOLCAN IC FIELD; VOLCANICS;

GEOMAGNETISM;

BRUNHES CHRON; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; LAVA FLOW; MAGNETIC INTENSITY; PALEOMAGNETISM; VIRTUAL GEOMAGNETIC POLE;

ALNUS;

EID: 52949090777     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2008.05.001     Document Type: Article

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