Variations in the geomagnetic dipole moment during the Holocene and the past 50 kyr

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 272, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 319-329

  Knudsen, Mads Faurschou ^a,b   Riisager, Peter ^c   Donadini, Fabio ^d   Snowball, Ian ^e   Muscheler, Raimund ^e   Korhonen, Kimmo ^f   Pesonen, Lauri J ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e GeoBiosphere Science Centre   (Sweden)

^f GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

archeomagnetic jerks; cosmogenic nuclides; geomagnetic dipole moment; geomagnetic excursions; Holocene; paleointensity

Indexed keywords

AXIAL DIPOLE; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDES (CRN); ERROR ESTIMATES; HOLOCENE; LEAST SQUARES FIT (LSF); PALEOINTENSITY DATA;

ELECTRIC DIPOLE MOMENTS; ERROR ANALYSIS; GEOMAGNETISM; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MAGNETISM; MOLECULES; RADIOISOTOPES; REPAIR; RESTORATION;

DIPOLE MOMENT;

BOOTSTRAPPING; DATABASE; GEOMAGNETISM; HOLOCENE; MAGNETIC INTENSITY; MAGNETIC REVERSAL; SECULAR VARIATION;

EID: 47749111663     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.04.048     Document Type: Article

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