Palaeointensity determination on an early medieval kiln from Switzerland and the effect of cooling rate

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth

Volumn 33, Issue 6-7, 2008, Pages 449-457

  Donadini, F ^a,b   Kovacheva, M ^c   Kostadinova, M ^c   Hedley, I G ^d   Pesonen, L J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (Bulgaria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Archaeointensity; Cooling rate; Palaeointensity; Thellier experiment

Indexed keywords

CLAY; COOLING; KILNS; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES;

ARCHAEOINTENSITY; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; PALEOINTENSITY; THELLIER EXPERIMENT;

GEOMAGNETISM;

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

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 43549097518     PISSN: 14747065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pce.2008.02.019     Document Type: Article

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