Palaeomagnetic intensity data: An Achilles heel of solar activity reconstructions

Holocene

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 851-859

  Snowball, Ian ^a   Muscheler, Raimund ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cosmogenic radionuclides; Holocene; Palaeomagnetism; Solar activity

Indexed keywords

COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; GEOMAGNETISM; HOLOCENE; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETIC INTENSITY; PALEOMAGNETISM; RECONSTRUCTION; SOLAR ACTIVITY;

EID: 35649020203     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683607080531     Document Type: Article

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