Shock and static pressure demagnetization of pyrrhotite and implications for the Martian crust

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 290, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 90-101

  Louzada, Karin L ^a,b   Stewart, Sarah T ^b   Weiss, Benjamin P ^c   Gattacceca, Jérôme ^d   Bezaeva, Natalia S ^e  

^a Royal Netherlands Embassy   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^e MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

demagnetization; impact cratering; Mars; pressure; pyrrhotite; shock

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PHASE; COERCIVITIES; COERCIVITY DISTRIBUTIONS; CRUSTAL MAGNETIZATION; CRUSTAL ROCKS; DEMAGNETIZATION PROCESS; EXTRATERRESTRIAL BODIES; HUGONIOT ELASTIC LIMIT; IMPACT BASINS; IMPACT CRATERING; IRREVERSIBLE LOSS; MAGNETIC REMANENCE; MAGNETIC ROCKS; MAGNETOSTRICTIVE EFFECT; MARS; MICROFRACTURING; MULTI DOMAINS; PARAMAGNETIC TRANSITION; PRESSURE DEMAGNETIZATION; PRESSURE REGIME; SHOCK PRESSURE; SINGLE DOMAINS; STATIC AND DYNAMIC; STATIC PRESSURE; TWO-REGIME;

COERCIVE FORCE; ELECTRIC GENERATORS; EXPERIMENTS; GEOMAGNETISM; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HYDRAULICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; IRON ORES; MAGNETIC DOMAINS; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; REMANENCE;

DEMAGNETIZATION;

CRATERING; CRUST; DEMAGNETIZATION; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; MARS; PLANETARY EVOLUTION; PLANETARY SURFACE; PYRRHOTITE; REMANENT MAGNETIZATION;

EID: 74249119771     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.12.006     Document Type: Article

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