Magnetic microstructures of metal grains in equilibrated ordinary chondrites and implications for paleomagnetism of meteorites

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 306, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 241-252

  Uehara, Minoru ^a   Gattacceca, Jérôme ^a   Leroux, Hugues ^b   Jacob, Damien ^b   Van Der Beek, Cornelis Jacominus ^c  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

Cloudy zone; Extraterrestrial magnetism; Magnetic microscopy; Magneto optical imaging; Tetrataenite

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; GEOMAGNETISM; INTERACTIVE DEVICES; IRON ALLOYS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIZATION; MICROSTRUCTURE; OPTICAL IMAGE STORAGE; REMANENCE;

COERCIVITY OF REMANENCE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC ORIENTATIONS; MAGNETIC MICROSCOPY; MAGNETIC MICROSTRUCTURES; MAGNETOOPTICAL IMAGING; SMALL-SCALE HETEROGENEITY; SPONTANEOUS MAGNETIZATION; TETRATAENITE;

METEORITES;

CHONDRITE; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETIC PROPERTY; METEORITE; MICROSTRUCTURE; PALEOMAGNETISM; REMANENT MAGNETIZATION;

EID: 79956297556     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.04.008     Document Type: Article

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