Testing the accuracy of absolute intensity estimates of the ancient geomagnetic field using copper slag material

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 290, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 201-213

  Shaar, Ron ^a   Ron, Hagai ^a   Tauxe, Lisa ^b   Kessel, Ronit ^a   Agnon, Amotz ^a   Ben Yosef, Erez ^c   Feinberg, Joshua M ^d  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

archeomagnetism; jacobsite; paleointensity; rock magnetism; slag; Thellier method

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE INTENSITY; ARCHEOMAGNETISM; COPPER SLAG; DENDRITIC STRUCTURES; ELONGATED PARTICLES; FERROMAGNETIC PHASIS; FIELD STRENGTHS; GEOMAGNETIC FIELDS; HIGH RESOLUTION; INTENSITY VARIATIONS; MAGNETIC ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC STUDIES; MICROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; MINERALOGICAL PROPERTIES; NEW MATERIAL; NON-LINEAR; NON-LINEARITY; OPTIMAL SAMPLES; OXIDE GRAINS; PALEOINTENSITY; ROCK MAGNETISM; SHAPE-CONTROLLED; SINGLE DOMAINS; SLAG MATERIALS; SUBMICRON;

ANISOTROPY; COPPER; DENDRIMERS; EXPERIMENTS; GEOMAGNETISM; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; MAGNETOMETERS; ROCKS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

SLAGS;

COPPER; ESTIMATION METHOD; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC INTENSITY; MAGNETIC PROPERTY; PALEOMAGNETISM; PRECISION; SLAG; THERMOREMANENT MAGNETIZATION;

EID: 74149083437     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.12.022     Document Type: Article

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