Revised Pacific M-anomaly geomagnetic polarity timescale

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 182, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 203-232

  Tominaga, Masako ^a   Sager, William W ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetic anomalies: modelling and interpretation; Marine magnetics and palaeomagnetics; Reversals: process, time scale, magnetostratigraphy

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION; FORWARD MODELING; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; JURASSIC-CRETACEOUS BOUNDARY; LINEATION; MAGNETIC ANOMALY; MAGNETIC REVERSAL; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; OCEANIC CRUST; PALEOMAGNETISM; TIMESCALE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 77954649851     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04619.x     Document Type: Article

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