The implications of long-lived asymmetry of remanent magnetization across the North Pacific fracture zones

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 288, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 551-563

  Granot, Roi ^a   Cande, Steve C ^a   Gee, Jeffrey S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

crustal accretion; fracture zones; geomagnetic field; magnetic anomalies

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE PLATE MOTIONS; AVERAGE VALUES; CONSTRUCTION PROCESS; FORWARD AND INVERSE MODELING; FORWARD MODELING; FRACTURE ZONE; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD VARIATIONS; GEOMAGNETIC FIELDS; IRON CONTENT; MAGNETIC ANOMALIES; MAGNETIC DATA; MARINE MAGNETIC ANOMALIES; MULTIPLE FAULTS; NORTH PACIFIC; QUIET ZONE; REMANENT MAGNETIZATION; SIMPLE MODEL; TRANSFORM FAULT; UNDERLYING MECHANISM;

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; FRACTURE; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MAGNETIZATION; MAGNETS; REMANENCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

GEOMAGNETISM;

ACCRETION; CRETACEOUS; FRACTURE ZONE; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETIC ANOMALY; REMANENT MAGNETIZATION;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 70449722750     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.10.017     Document Type: Article

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