Relative geomagnetic paleointensity of the Brunhes Chron and the Matuyama-Brunhes precursor as recorded in sediment core from Wilkes Land Basin (Antarctica)

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 179, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 72-86

  Macrì, Patrizia ^a   Sagnotti, Leonardo ^a   Dinarès Turell, Jaume ^a   Caburlotto, Andrea ^b  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OCEANOGRAFIA E DI GEOFISICA SPERIMENTALE OGS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Brunhes Chron; Matuyama Brunhes precursor; Paleomagnetism; Relative paleointensity

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTICA; AXIAL DIPOLE; CONTINENTAL RISE; GEOMAGNETIC SECULAR VARIATION; GLOBAL CLIMATES; HIGH RESOLUTION; ICE SHEET; LATE PLEISTOCENE; LITHOFACIES; MAGNETIC MINERALS; MAGNETIC PARAMETERS; NON-DIPOLE; ORBITAL FORCING; PALEOINTENSITY; PALEOMAGNETIC DIRECTIONS; PISTON CORES; POLARITY CHANGE; RELATIVE STRENGTH; REMANENT MAGNETIZATION; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENTATION RATES; STRATIGRAPHIC INTERVALS; WILKES LAND BASINS;

GEOMAGNETISM; STRATIGRAPHY;

LITHOLOGY;

GLOBAL CLIMATE; MAGNETIC INCLINATION; MAGNETIC INTENSITY; MAGNETIC MINERAL; MAGNETIC REVERSAL; PALEOMAGNETISM; REMANENT MAGNETIZATION; SECULAR VARIATION; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENTATION RATE;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; WILKES LAND;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 76949094207     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2009.12.002     Document Type: Article

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