Magnetostratigraphy of Sediments in Mammoth Cave, Kentucky
- 27 August 1982
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 217 (4562) , 827-829
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.217.4562.827
Abstract
Clastic sediment deposits found within the caves of Mammoth Cave National Park have yielded a magnetostratigraphic pattern of magnetic polarity reversals which indicates-that they were deposited over a range of at least 1 million and most likely 2 million years.Keywords
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