Reliable absolute palaeointensities independent of magnetic domain state

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 248, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 508-517

  Dekkers, Mark J ^a,b   Böhnel, Harald N ^a  

^a CENTRO DE FÍSICA APLICADA Y TECNOLOGÍA AVANZADA   (Mexico)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

absolute palaeointensity; magnetic domain state; Paricutin

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; MAGNETIC DOMAINS; REMANENCE; ROCKS;

ABSOLUTE PALEOINTENSITY; NATURAL REMANENT MAGNETISATION (NRM); PARTIAL THERMOREMANENT MAGNETISATION (PTRM);

GEOMAGNETISM;

GEODYNAMO; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETIC INTENSITY; THERMOREMANENT MAGNETIZATION;

EID: 33746490699     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2006.05.040     Document Type: Article

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