Time-Averaged Field and Paleosecular Variation

Treatise on Geophysics

Volumn 5, Issue , 2007, Pages 417-453

  Johnson, C L ^a   McFadden, P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Core mantle boundary; Excursions; Lavas; Paleointensity; Paleomagnetic directions; Paleosecular variation; Reversals; Sediments; Tangent cylinder; Time averaged field

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869079661     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-044452748-6.00096-1     Document Type: Chapter

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