Pre-Columbian mural paintings from Mesoamerica as geomagnetic field recorders

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2004, Pages

  Goguitchaichvili, A ^a   Soler, A M ^a   Zanella, E ^b   Chiari, G ^c   Lanza, R ^b   Urrutia Fucugauchi, J ^a   Gonzalez, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^c GETTY CONSERVATION INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMAGNETIZATION; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETITE; MAGNETIZATION; REMANENCE;

GEOMAGNETIC FIELDS; REMANENT MAGNETIZATION;

GEOMAGNETISM;

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; ARCHAEOMAGNETISM; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; PALEOMAGNETISM; ROCK ART;

GEOMAGNETIC FIELDS; INFORMATION CONCERNING; MASTER CURVE; MESOAMERICA; MURAL PAINTINGS; PRE-COLUMBIAN; REMANENT MAGNETIZATION; SECULAR VARIATION;

EID: 6044224835     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020065     Document Type: Article

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