Title: Environmental factors affecting geomagnetic field palaeointensity estimates from sediments
Abstract: Direct measurements of the Earth's magnetic field have been collected for several centuries (Merrill et al., 1996). Even from such short historical records it is clear that the magnetic field is not static but rather changes continuously on a variety of time scales. This variability is termed secular variation (SV). Palaeomagnetists, over the last several decades, have taken advantage of the natural remanent magnetization (NRM) recorded in rocks to extend our knowledge of the geomagnetic field secular variation backward into prehistoric time. Studies of palaeomagnetic secular variation provide a long-term view of geomagnetic field variability and are useful for aiding our understanding of the dynamo process which generates the Earth's magnetic field (e.g. Merrill et al., 1996) and for chronostratigraphic correlations (e.g. Creer et al., 1990).
Publication Year: 1999
Publication Date: 1999-10-14
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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