Origin of the smooth zone in early Cretaceous North Atlantic magnetic anomalies

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Tominaga, Masako ^a,b   Sager, William W ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABRUPT CHANGE; EARLY CRETACEOUS; GEOMAGNETIC FIELDS; GEOPHYSICAL EVIDENCE; JURASSIC; LOW-AMPLITUDE; MAGNETIC ANOMALIES; MAGNETIC MODELING; MAGNETIC SOURCES; MARINE MAGNETIC ANOMALIES; NORTH ATLANTIC; POLARITY REVERSAL; SPREADING RATE; SURFACE ANOMALIES; ULTRA-SLOW SPREADING;

GEOMAGNETISM;

BASALT; CRETACEOUS; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETIC ANOMALY; SEA SURFACE; SEAFLOOR SPREADING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 75749083630     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL040984     Document Type: Article

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