Fine-tuning the calibration of the early to middle Eocene geomagnetic polarity time scale: Paleomagnetism of radioisotopically dated tuffs from Laramide foreland basins

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 5-6, 2012, Pages 870-885

  Tsukui, Kaori ^a,b,c   Clyde, William C ^a  

^a University of New Hampshire   (United States)

^b International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^c DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION MODEL; FORELAND BASIN; GEOMAGNETIC POLARITY; LARAMIDE; NEW MODEL; PALEOCENE-EOCENE THERMAL MAXIMUMS; POLARITY DETERMINATION; TIME-SCALES;

CALIBRATION; TIME MEASUREMENT;

GEOMAGNETISM;

ARGON-ARGON DATING; CALIBRATION; EOCENE; FORELAND BASIN; LARAMIDE OROGENY; MAGNETIC REVERSAL; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; PALEOMAGNETISM; TUFF;

EID: 84863510283     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 19432674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B30545.1     Document Type: Article

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