Revisiting the magnetostratigraphy of the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP) in Morocco

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 309, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 302-317

  Font, E ^a   Youbi, N ^a,b,c   Fernandes, S ^a   El Hachimi, H ^b   Kratinova Z ^d   Hamim, Y ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b CADI AYYAD UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL RESEARCH   (Morocco)

^d INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

CAMP; Magnetostratigraphy; Morocco; Remagnetization; Triassic Jurassic boundary

Indexed keywords

BASALT; LIME; LIMESTONE; MAGNETIC DEVICES; METEOR IMPACTS; MINERALS; STRATIGRAPHY;

CAMP; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; MOROCCO; REMAGNETIZATION; TRIASSIC-JURASSIC BOUNDARY;

MAGNETISM;

ARGON-ARGON DATING; JURASSIC; LIMESTONE; MAGNETIC MINERAL; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; PALEOMAGNETISM; REMAGNETIZATION; TRIASSIC;

MOROCCO;

EID: 80052813225     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.07.007     Document Type: Article

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