Rock magnetic and paleointensity results form Mesozoic baked contacts of Armenia

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 23-39

  Shcherbakova, V V ^a   Perrin, M ^b   Shcherbakov, V P ^a   Pavlov, V E ^a   Ayvaz'yan, A ^c   Zhidkov, G V ^a  

^a SCHMIDT INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS OF THE EARTH   (Russian Federation)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c YEREVAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (Armenia)

Author keywords

Armenia; Baked contacts; Cretaceous; Paleointensity; Thellier method

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; LAVA FLOW; MAGNETIC INTENSITY; MESOZOIC; PALEOMAGNETISM;

ARMENIA; ASIA; EURASIA; WEST ASIA;

CONIACIAN;

EID: 62249188913     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03352882     Document Type: Article

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