Four centuries of geomagnetic secular variation from historical records

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 358, Issue 1768, 2000, Pages 957-990

  Jackson, Andrew ^a   Jonkers, Art R T ^b   Walker, Matthew R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Earth's core; Geomagnetic secular variation; Magnetic field; Maritime history

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347372908     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2000.0569     Document Type: Article

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