Records of Paleomagnetic Field Variations

Advances in Geophysical and Environmental Mechanics and Mathematics

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 65-106

  Fabian, Karl ^a   Leonhardt, Roman ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEOBEN   (Austria)

Author keywords

Earth Planet; Isothermal Remanent Magnetization; Natural Remanent Magnetization; Paleomagnetic Data; Virtual Geomagnetic Pole

Indexed keywords

EID: 85091240486     PISSN: 18668348     EISSN: 18668356     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-76939-2_3     Document Type: Chapter

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