Updated paleomagnetic pole from Cretaceous plutonic rocks of the Sierra Nevada, California: Tectonic displacement of the Sierra Nevada block

Lithosphere

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 275-288

  Hillhouse, John W ^a   Grommé, Sherman ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMAGNETISM; MAGNETITE;

LOW DISPERSIONS; PALEOMAGNETIC POLES; REMANENT MAGNETIZATION; SIERRA NEVADA , CALIFORNIA; SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA; THERMAL DEMAGNETIZATION; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; TILT CORRECTION;

REMANENCE;

CRETACEOUS; DEMAGNETIZATION; DISPLACEMENT; LATITUDE; MAGNETITE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; OUTCROP; PALEOMAGNETISM; PLUTONIC ROCK; POTASSIUM; TECTONICS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; TILT;

CALIFORNIA; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80052320761     PISSN: 19418264     EISSN: 19474253     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/L142.1     Document Type: Article

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