Magnetic poles and dipole tilt variation over the past decades to millennia

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 60, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 937-948

  Korte, Monika ^a   Mandea, M ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dipole axis; Geomagnetic field; Magnetic poles

Indexed keywords

COMPLEXITY; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; COSMIC RAY; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; TILT;

EID: 56549093463     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03352849     Document Type: Article

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