Extremely rapid directional change during Matuyama-Brunhes geomagnetic polarity reversal

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 199, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 1110-1124

  Sagnotti, Leonardo ^a   Scardia, Giancarlo ^b,c   Giaccio, Biagio ^b   Liddicoat, Joseph C ^d   Nomade, Sebastien ^e   Renne, Paul R ^f,g   Sprain, Courtney J ^f,g  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d Program on US Russia Relations at Columbia s Harriman Institute   (United States)

^e LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^f BERKELEY GEOCHRONOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetostratigraphy; Reversals: Process; Timescale

Indexed keywords

SEDIMENTS;

CONTINUOUS SEQUENCES; EARTH'S MAGNETIC FIELD; GEOMAGNETIC POLARITY REVERSAL; LACUSTRINE SEDIMENTS; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; SEDIMENT ACCUMULATION; TIME-SCALES;

GEOMAGNETISM;

ACCUMULATION RATE; ARGON-ARGON DATING; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MAGNETIC REVERSAL; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; PALEOMAGNETISM; TEPHRA;

APENNINES; ITALY;

EID: 84921528899     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggu287     Document Type: Article

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