Paleomagnetism and 40Ar/39Ar ages from volcanics extruded during the Matuyama and Brunhes Chrons near McMurdo Sound, Antarctica

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2004, Pages

  Tauxe, Lisa ^a   Gans, Phillip ^b   Mankinen, Edward A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Paleointensity; Paleomagnetism; Paleosecular variation; Thellier Thellier experiment; VGP scatter

Indexed keywords

EID: 57749100872     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GC000656     Document Type: Article

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