Geomagnetic field variability during the Cretaceous Normal Superchron

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 220-223

  Granot, Roi ^a,b   Dyment, Jérôme ^a   Gallet, Yves ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; GEODYNAMICS; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETIC ANOMALY; OCEANIC CRUST; PALEOMAGNETISM; RECONSTRUCTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (CENTRAL);

EID: 84857860131     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1404     Document Type: Article

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