Geomagnetic paleointensity between 1300 and 1750 A.D. derived from a bread oven floor sequence in Lübeck, Germany

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Schnepp, Elisabeth ^a   Lanos, Philippe ^b,c   Chauvin, Annick ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEOBEN   (Austria)

^b Centre de Recherches en Physique Appliquée à l'Archéologie   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

Archaeomagnetism; Bayesian modeling; Germany; Paleointensity; Secular variation

Indexed keywords

EID: 72249105066     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GC002470     Document Type: Article

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