A New Geomagnetic Polarity Time Scale for the Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic

• Main Authors: Cande, Steven C., Kent, Dennis V.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Columbia University 1992
• Subjects: Geophysics; Antarctic; Pacific; Indian; Southeast Indian Ridge; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8qn6h85; https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/D8QN6H85

We have constructed a magnetic polarity time scale for the Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic based on an analysis of marine magnetic profiles from the world's ocean basins. This is the first time, since Heirtzler et al. (1968) published their time scale, that the relative widths of the magnetic pola...