Recognition of primary and diagenetic magnetizations to determine the magnetic polarity record and timing of deposition of the moat-fill rocks of the Oligocene Creede caldera, Colorado

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 346, Issue , 2000, Pages 77-93

  Reynolds, Richard L ^a   Rosenbaum, Joseph G ^a   Sweetkind, Donald S ^a   Lanphere, Marvin A ^b   Roberts, Andrew P ^c   Verosub, Kenneth L ^d  

^a DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; GEOMAGNETISM; IRON OXIDES; LANDFORMS; LITHOLOGY; MAGNETIC POLARITY; MAGNETITE; MAGNETIZATION; PYRITES; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TIMING CIRCUITS;

CHEMICAL REMANENT MAGNETIZATION; DEPOSITIONAL EVENT; DESTRUCTIVE EFFECTS; GEOMAGNETIC POLARITY TIME SCALE; MAGNETIC IRON OXIDES; MAGNETIC STUDIES; PALEOMAGNETIC RECORD; REMANENT MAGNETIZATION;

SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

CALDERA; DIAGENESIS; LAVA FLOW; MAGNETIC REVERSAL; MAGNETIZATION; OLIGOCENE; PALEOMAGNETISM; PYRITE; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; TUFF; VOLCANICLASTIC DEPOSIT;

COLORADO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870956125     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2346-9.77     Document Type: Article

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