Updated archeomagnetic data set of the past 8 millennia from the Sofia laboratory, Bulgaria

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Kovacheva, M ^a   Boyadziev, Y ^b   Kostadinova Avramova, M ^a   Jordanova, N ^a   Donadini, F ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (Bulgaria)

^b Institute of Archaeology   (Bulgaria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Archeomagnetism; Database

Indexed keywords

EID: 72749095261     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GC002347     Document Type: Article

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