Hierarchical modelling of archaeomagnetic data and curve estimation by moving average technique

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 160, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 440-476

  Lanos, Philippe ^a   Le Goff, Maxime ^a   Kovacheva, Mary ^b   Schnepp, Elisabeth ^c,d  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (Bulgaria)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED GEOPHYSICS   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEOBEN   (Austria)

Author keywords

Archaeomagnetism; Geomagnetic secular variation; Remanent magnetization; Statistical methods

Indexed keywords

ARCHEOMAGNETISM; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; MODELING; SECULAR VARIATION;

EID: 15044348186     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2005.02490.x     Document Type: Article

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