Application of the multispecimen palaeointensity method to Pleistocene lava flows from the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 179, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 139-156

  Michalk, Daniel M ^a   Biggin, Andrew J ^b   Knudsen, Mads F ^c   Böhnel, Harald N ^d   Nowaczyk, Norbert R ^a   Ownby, Steven ^e   López Martínez, Margarita ^f  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^d CENTRO DE FÍSICA APLICADA Y TECNOLOGÍA AVANZADA   (Mexico)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^f CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Dipole moment; Domain state; Mexico; Palaeointensity; Palaeomagnetism; Remagnetisation

Indexed keywords

BLOCKING TEMPERATURE; DOMAIN STATE; FUTURE APPLICATIONS; GEOMAGNETIC FIELDS; HAEMATITE; HIGH QUALITY; LAVA FLOWS; ME-XICO; MULTI DOMAINS; NON-DIPOLE; PALAEOINTENSITY; PALAEOMAGNETISM; PLEISTOCENE; ROCK UNITS; SINGLE DOMAINS; TI CONTENT; TITANOMAGNETITES; TRANS-MEXICAN VOLCANIC BELT;

DIPOLE MOMENT; ELECTRIC DIPOLE MOMENTS; GEOMAGNETISM; HEMATITE; IRON ORES; LITHOLOGY; OXIDE MINERALS; REMANENCE; VOLCANOES;

MAGNETIC DOMAINS;

DEMAGNETIZATION; DOMAIN STRUCTURE; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; LAVA FLOW; MAGNETIC INTENSITY; MAGNETIC METHOD; PALEOMAGNETISM; PLEISTOCENE; REMANENT MAGNETIZATION; VOLCANIC BELT;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; TRANS-MEXICAN VOLCANIC BELT;

EID: 77951136822     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2010.01.005     Document Type: Article

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