Archaeomagnetic secular variation in the UK during the past 4000 years and its application to archaeomagnetic dating

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 160, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 97-107

  Zananiri, I ^a   Batt, C M ^a   Lanos, Ph ^b   Tarling, D H ^c   Linford, P ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^d ENGLISH HERITAGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Archaeomagnetic dating; Bayesian statistics; Database; Moving window; Secular variation; Spline modelling; UK

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ARCHAEOMAGNETIC DATING; BAYESIAN STATISTICS; MOVING WINDOW; SECULAR VARIATION; SPLINE MODELLING;

GEOMAGNETISM;

ARCHAEOLOGY; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DATA SET; DATABASE; DATING METHOD; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; MEDIEVAL; SECULAR VARIATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33845869349     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2006.08.006     Document Type: Article

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