Geomagnetic field intensity changes in Sweden between 9000 and 450 cal BP: Extending the record of "archaeomagnetic jerks" by means of lake sediments and the pseudo-Thellier technique

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 227, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 361-376

  Snowball, Ian ^a   Sandgren, Per ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Archaeomagnetic jerks; Geomagnetic field; Lake sediments; Palaeointensity; Pseudo Thellier technique; Secular variation; Sweden; The Holocene

Indexed keywords

ARCHEOMAGNETIC DATA; PALEOINTENSITY; PALEOMAGNETIC SECULAR VARIATION (PSV); RADIOCARBON AGES;

CALIBRATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LAKES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEDIMENTS;

GEOMAGNETISM;

GEODYNAMO; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; HOLOCENE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MAGNETIC INTENSITY; PALEOMAGNETISM;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SMALAND; SWEDEN; WORLD;

EID: 7044234898     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2004.09.017     Document Type: Article

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