Widespread inclination shallowing in Permian and Triassic paleomagnetic data from Laurentia: Support from new paleomagnetic data from Middle Permian shallow intrusions in southern Illinois (USA) and virtual geomagnetic pole distributions

Tectonophysics

Volumn 511, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 38-52

  Domeier, Mathew ^a   Van der Voo, Rob ^a,b   Denny, F Brett ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Det Norske Videnskaps Akademi   (Norway)

^c ILLINOIS STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Inclination shallowing; Laurentian apparent polar wander path; Paleomagnetism applied to tectonics; Virtual geomagnetic pole distributions

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; FIELD MODEL; ILLINOIS; INCLINATION ERRORS; INCLINATION SHALLOWING; LAURENTIAN; MODEL RESULTS; PALEOMAGNETIC DATA; PALEOMAGNETIC POLES; PALEOMAGNETIC RECORD; PALEOMAGNETISM APPLIED TO TECTONICS; PERMIAN; POLE DISTRIBUTION; SHALLOW INTRUSIONS; TITANOMAGNETITES; TRIASSIC; VIRTUAL GEOMAGNETIC POLE DISTRIBUTIONS;

IGNEOUS ROCKS; IRON ORES; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TECTONICS;

GEOMAGNETISM;

APPARENT POLAR WANDER PATH; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; IGNEOUS ROCK; LAURENTIA; MAGNETIZATION; PALEOMAGNETISM; PERMIAN; TRIASSIC;

EID: 80054836070     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2011.08.016     Document Type: Article

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