Microwave palaeointensities from Holocene age Hawaiian lavas: Investigation of magnetic properties and comparison with thermal palaeointensities

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 162, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 99-118

  Pressling, Nicola ^a   Brown, Maxwell C ^b   Gratton, Martin N ^b   Shaw, John ^b   Gubbins, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Classical thermal Thellier Thellier method; Hawaii; Holocene; Microwave perpendicular applied field method; Rock magnetics

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; MICROWAVES; MINERALOGY; OXIDATION; TEXTURES;

LAVA FLOW; MICROWAVE PERPENDICULAR APPLIED FIELD METHOD; PALEOINTENSITY; THERMAL THELLIER-THELLIER METHOD;

VOLCANIC ROCKS;

HOLOCENE; LAVA FLOW; MAGNETIC INTENSITY; MAGNETIC PROPERTY; PALEOMAGNETISM;

HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34250357106     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2007.03.007     Document Type: Article

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