Why are geomagnetic excursions not always recorded in sediments? Constraints from post-depositional remanent magnetization lock-in modelling

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 227, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 345-359

  Roberts, Andrew P ^a   Winklhofer, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Excursions; Geomagnetic; Lock in; Magnetization; PDRM; Post depositional remanent magnetization; sediment

Indexed keywords

GEOMAGNETIC EXCURSIONS; PALEOMAGNETIC ANALYSIS; POST-DEPOSITIONAL REMANENT MAGNETIZATION (PDRM); SEDIMENTATION RATES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; MAGNETIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SEDIMENTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STRATIGRAPHY;

GEOMAGNETISM;

BRUNHES CHRON; PALEOMAGNETISM; REMANENT MAGNETIZATION; RESOLUTION; SEDIMENTATION RATE;

EID: 7044220533     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2004.07.040     Document Type: Article

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