Revisiting the Lowrie-Fuller test: Alternating field demagnetization characteristics of single-domain through multidomain glass-ceramic magnetite

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 160, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 257-271

  Halgedahl, Susan L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternating field demagnetization; Ceramic materials; Ceramics; Glass; Glass materials; Magnetite; Thermoremanent magnetization

Indexed keywords

CERAMICS; GLASS; MAGNETITE; THERMOREMANENT MAGNETIZATION;

EID: 0032448607     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(98)00085-5     Document Type: Article

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