An assessment of the reliability of palaeointensity results obtained from the Cretaceous aged Suhongtu section, Inner Mongolia, China

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 169, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 76-88

  Hill, Mimi J ^a   Pan, Yongxin ^b   Davies, Ceri J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Cretaceous; CRM; Microwave; Palaeointensity

Indexed keywords

HELIUM; MAGNETISM;

CRETACEOUS; CRM; INNER MONGOLIA; MICROWAVE; PALAEOINTENSITY; PALAEOMAGNETISM;

GEOMAGNETISM;

ARGON-ARGON DATING; CRETACEOUS; DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; LAVA FLOW; MAGHEMITE; PALEOMAGNETISM; PARAMETERIZATION; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; REMANENT MAGNETIZATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THERMOREMANENT MAGNETIZATION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; NEI MONGGOL;

EID: 52949105339     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2008.07.023     Document Type: Article

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