Magnetic properties of rocks of the Kapuskasing uplift (Ontario, Canada) and origin of long-wavelength magnetic anomalies

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 183, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 645-658

  Dunlop, David J ^a   Özdemir, Özden ^a   Costanzo Alvarez, Vincenzo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSIDAD SIMÓN BOLÍVAR   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Magnetic and electrical properties; Magnetic anomalies: modelling and interpretation; Magnetic mineralogy and petrology; Rock and mineral magnetism

Indexed keywords

BIMODAL DISTRIBUTION; BLOCKING TEMPERATURE; CRUSTAL SOURCES; EARTH'S FIELD; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LONG TERM STABILITY; LONG WAVELENGTH; MAGNETIC AND ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES; MAGNETIC ANOMALIES; MAGNETIC MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY; MULTI DOMAINS; NATURAL REMANENT MAGNETIZATION; ONTARIO , CANADA; Q-VALUES; SINGLE DOMAINS; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TONALITE;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DEMAGNETIZATION; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; GEOMAGNETISM; MAGNETIC DOMAINS; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; MAGNETIZATION; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; PETROGRAPHY; PETROLOGY; ROCKS; SILICATE MINERALS;

REMANENCE;

ANORTHOSITE; GEOMAGNETISM; MAFIC ROCK; MAGNETIC ANOMALY; MAGNETIC PROPERTY; MODELING; NATURAL REMANENT MAGNETIZATION; TONALITE;

CANADA; KAPUSKASING ZONE; ONTARIO [CANADA];

EID: 77958550749     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04778.x     Document Type: Article

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