Paleosecular variation models for ancient times: Clues from Keweenawan lava flows

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 177, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 31-45

  Tauxe, Lisa ^a   Kodama, Kenneth P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetric reversal behavior; Geomagnetic field behavior; Inclination error correction; Octupole contribution to time averaged field; Paleosecular variation models

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRIC REVERSAL BEHAVIOR; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD BEHAVIOR; INCLINATION ERROR CORRECTION; OCTUPOLE CONTRIBUTION TO TIME AVERAGED FIELD; PALEOSECULAR VARIATION MODELS;

ELONGATION; ERROR CORRECTION; GALLIUM; IRON ORES; MAGNETIC FIELDS; OXIDE MINERALS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STATISTICAL TESTS;

GEOMAGNETISM;

ASYMMETRY; ERROR CORRECTION; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; LAVA FLOW; MAGNETIC ANOMALY; MAGNETIC INCLINATION; MAGNETIC REVERSAL; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOMAGNETISM; PALEOZOIC; PRECAMBRIAN; PREDICTION; SAMPLING BIAS; SECULAR VARIATION; VECTOR;

GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; LAKE SUPERIOR; MIDCONTINENT RIFT; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 70349795715     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2009.07.006     Document Type: Article

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