Incompatible Ediacaran paleomagnetic directions suggest an equatorial geomagnetic dipole hypothesis

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 293, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 164-170

  Abrajevitch, Alexandra ^a   Van der Voo Rob, R ^b  

^a KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Baltica; Ediacaran; Equatorial dipole; Laurentia; Paleogeography; Paleomagnetism

Indexed keywords

AGE DATING; CLOSE-IN; CO-AXIAL; CO-EXISTENCE; EARTH'S INTERIOR; EDIACARAN; GEOCENTRIC AXIAL DIPOLE HYPOTHESIS; GEOMAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIZATION COMPONENTS; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOMAGNETIC DATA; PALEOMAGNETIC DIRECTIONS; PLATE TECTONICS; POLAR LATITUDE; PRIMARY MAGNETIZATION; REFERENCE FRAME; THERMAL EVOLUTION;

MAGNETIZATION; TECTONICS;

GEOMAGNETISM;

BALTICA; EDIACARAN; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; LAURENTIA; MAGNETIZATION; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOLATITUDE; PALEOMAGNETISM;

EID: 77950323909     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.02.038     Document Type: Article

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