A paleomagnetic and paleointensity study on Pleistocene and Pliocene basaltic flows from the Djavakheti Highland (Southern Georgia, Caucasus)

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 187, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 212-224

  Calvo Rathert, Manuel ^a   Goguitchaichvili, Avto ^b   Bógalo, María Felicidad ^a   Vegas Tubía, Néstor ^c   Carrancho, Ángel ^a   Sologashvili, Jemal ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BURGOS   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE MATEMÁTICAS   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^d Germany   (Georgia)

Author keywords

Caucasus; Paleointensity; Paleomagnetism; Paleosecular variation; Plio Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

CAUCASUS; PALEOINTENSITY; PALEOMAGNETISM; PALEOSECULAR VARIATIONS; PLIO-PLEISTOCENE;

GEOMAGNETISM; RADIOMETRY;

EXPERIMENTS;

APPARENT POLAR WANDER PATH; BASALT; GEOMAGNETISM; HYSTERESIS; LAVA FLOW; MAGNETIC INCLINATION; MAGNETIC INTENSITY; PALEOMAGNETISM; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; RADIOMETRIC METHOD; REMANENT MAGNETIZATION; SECULAR VARIATION;

CAUCASUS;

EID: 80053191855     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2011.03.008     Document Type: Article

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