A reliable absolute palaeointensity determination obtained from a non-ideal recorder

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 257, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 545-563

  Biggin, Andrew J ^a,b   Perrin, Mireille ^a   Dekkers, Mark J ^b  

^a UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

cooling rate; Etna; multidomain; palaeointensity; paleointensity; rock magnetism

Indexed keywords

MULTIDOMAIN GRAINS; PALAEOINTENSITY; ROCK MAGNETISM;

BASALT; COOLING; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; MAGNETISM;

PETROLOGY;

COOLING; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; LAVA FLOW; MAGNETIC INTENSITY; MAGNETIC PROPERTY; PALEOMAGNETISM;

CATANIA [SICILY]; ETNA; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SICILY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 34247642618     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.03.017     Document Type: Article

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