Maghemite-to-magnetite reduction across the Fe-redox boundary in a sediment core from the Ontong-Java Plateau: Influence on relative palaeointensity estimation and environmental magnetic application

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 185, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1243-1254

  Yamazaki, Toshitsugu ^a   Solheid, Peter ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental magnetism; Pacific Ocean; Palaeointensity; Rock and mineral magnetism

Indexed keywords

ANHYSTERETIC REMANENT MAGNETIZATIONS; COERCIVITIES; COMPONENT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MAGNETISM; FERRIC OXIDE; GRAVITY CORE; ISOTHERMAL REMANENT MAGNETIZATION; LOW TEMPERATURES; MAGHEMITES; MAGNETIC APPLICATIONS; MAGNETIC CHANGES; MAGNETIC GRAINS; MAGNETIC MINERALS; MAGNETIC PROXIES; MARINE SEDIMENTS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PALAEOINTENSITY; REGIONAL PATTERN; SEDIMENT CORE; SSBAUER SPECTROSCOPIES; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; ESTIMATION; IRON ORES; IRON OXIDES; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; LITHOLOGY; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; MAGNETITE; ORE REDUCTION; SATURATION MAGNETIZATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY;

MAGNETISM;

MAGHEMITE; MAGNETIC PROPERTY; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MAGNETITE; MAGNETIZATION; MARINE SEDIMENT; PALEOMAGNETISM; REMANENT MAGNETIZATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ONTONG JAVA PLATEAU; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 79956038009     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05021.x     Document Type: Article

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