Overlapped paleomagnetic vectors and fold geometry: A case study in the Balzes anticline (Southern Pyrenees)

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 215, Issue , 2013, Pages 43-57

  Rodriguez Pinto A ^a,b   Pueyo, E L ^b   Barnolas, A ^b   Pocovi A ^a   Oliva Urcia, B ^a   Ramon M J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO GEOLÓGICO Y MINERO DE ESPAÑA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Declination and inclination errors; Eocene; External Sierras; Guara limestones; Overlapping; Primary and secondary paleomagnetic record

Indexed keywords

EOCENE; EXTERNAL SIERRAS; INCLINATION ERRORS; OVERLAPPING; PALEOMAGNETIC RECORD;

FERTILIZERS; GEOMETRY; LIMESTONE; LITHOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODELS; RESEARCH;

ERRORS;

ANTICLINE; DATA SET; EOCENE; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FOLD; GEOMETRY; LIMESTONE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOMAGNETISM; TEMPERATURE;

PYRENEES;

EID: 84872686658     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2012.10.005     Document Type: Article

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