Late Permian palaeomagnetism of Northern Eurasia: Data evaluation and a single-plate test of the geocentric axial dipole model

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 180, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 136-146

  Bazhenov, Mikhail L ^a   Shatsillo, Andrey V ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

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

Author keywords

Asia; Europe; Palaeomagnetic secular variation

Indexed keywords

COORDINATE; EARTH ROTATION; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; GEOMAGNETISM; MAGNETIC INCLINATION; PALEOMAGNETISM; PERMIAN; SECULAR VARIATION; TECTONIC PLATE; TECTONIC SETTING;

EURASIA;

EID: 73049099102     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04379.x     Document Type: Article

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