Superparamagnetism of two modern soils from the northeastern Pampean region, Argentina and its paleoclimatic indications

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 183, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 695-705

  Liu, Qingsong ^a   Torrent, José ^b   Morrás, Héctor ^c   Hong, Ao ^a   Jiang, Zhaoxia ^a   Su, Youliang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TECNOLOGÍA AGROPECUARIA INTA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Rock and mineral magnetism

Indexed keywords

ARGENTINA; BULK SAMPLES; CHINESE LOESS PLATEAU; COARSE-GRAINED; DITHIONITE; FERRIMAGNETS; FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT; LOESS SOILS; MAGNETIC SIGNALS; MAGNETIC SIGNATURES; MATERIAL ACCOUNTING; MINERALOGICAL COMPOSITIONS; PARENT MATERIALS; PEDOGENIC PROCESS; SUBMICRON;

FERRIMAGNETISM; IRON OXIDES; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MINERALS; SILICATE MINERALS; SUPERPARAMAGNETISM;

SOILS;

GEOMAGNETISM; IRON OXIDE; LOESS; MAGNETIC MINERAL; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; PALEOCLIMATE; PEDOGENESIS;

ARGENTINA; SIERRAS PAMPEANAS;

EID: 77958617001     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04786.x     Document Type: Article

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