On the magnetostratigraphic age of Nauru Basin basalts of the western Pacific Ocean and timing of Ontong Java volcanism

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 287, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 175-184

  Doubrovine, Pavel V ^a   Tarduno, John A ^a   Zhao, Xixi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

drilling induced magnetization; Early Cretaceous; Nauru Basin; oceanic flood basalts; Ontong Java Plateau

Indexed keywords

AGE DATA; CORE BARREL; DRILL STRINGS; EARLY CRETACEOUS; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; JURASSIC; LAVA FLOWS; MAGNETIC CARRIERS; MAGNETIC COMPONENTS; MAGNETIC HARDNESS; MAGNETIC OVERPRINTS; NAURU BASIN; OCEANIC CRUST; OCEANIC FLOOD BASALTS; ONTONG JAVA PLATEAU; PACIFIC OCEAN; PALEOMAGNETIC DATA; WESTERN PACIFIC;

DRILL PIPE; DRILLING; DRILLS; GEOMAGNETISM; LITHOLOGY; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETS; METAL RECOVERY; OCEANOGRAPHY; OFFSHORE OIL WELLS;

BASALT;

CRETACEOUS; FLOOD BASALT; LAVA FLOW; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETIC REVERSAL; MAGNETIZATION; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; PALEOMAGNETISM; VOLCANISM;

MICRONESIA; NAURU; ONTONG JAVA PLATEAU; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 70349391390     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.07.040     Document Type: Article

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