Quickly erupted volcanic sections of the Steens Basalt, Columbia River Basalt Group: Secular variation, tectonic rotation, and the Steens Mountain reversal

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2008, Pages

  Jarboe, Nicholas A ^a   Coe, Robert S ^a   Renne, Paul R ^b,c   Glen, Jonathan M G ^d   Mankinen, Edward A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BERKELEY GEOCHRONOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Columbia river basalt; Geochronology; Magnetostratigraphy; Paleomagnetism; Secular variation; Steens basalt

Indexed keywords

EID: 72449197049     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GC002067     Document Type: Article

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