Are ceramics and bricks reliable absolute geomagnetic intensity carriers?

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 187, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 310-321

  Morales, Juan ^a   Goguitchaichvili, Avto ^a   Aguilar Reyes, Bertha ^a   Pineda Duran, Modesto ^a   Camps, Pierre ^b   Carvallo, Claire ^c   Calvo Rathert, Manuel ^d  

^a INSTITUTO DE MATEMÁTICAS   (Mexico)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BURGOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Archeointensity; Bricks; Open kiln; Pottery; Western Mexico

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY OF MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; ARCHEOINTENSITY; BAKING PROCESS; COOLING RATES; EXPERIMENTAL UNCERTAINTY; FIELD STRENGTHS; FIRST-ORDER REVERSAL CURVES; FLUXGATE MAGNETOMETER; GEOMAGNETIC FIELDS; GEOMAGNETIC INTENSITY; GRAIN SIZE; IN-SITU; ME-XICO; MESOAMERICA; MULTI DOMAINS; PALEOINTENSITY; POTTERY; PSEUDO SINGLE DOMAINS; SINGLE DOMAINS; THERMOMAGNETIC CURVES; THERMOREMANENT MAGNETIZATION; TRADITIONAL TECHNIQUES;

BRICK; CERAMIC MATERIALS; CLAY; EXPERIMENTS; GEOMAGNETISM; IRON ORES; KILNS; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC DOMAINS; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MAGNETIZATION REVERSAL; MAGNETOMETERS; OVENS; STOVES; THERMOCOUPLES;

COOLING;

ARTIFACT; CERAMICS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; HEMATITE; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC INTENSITY; MAGNETIC PROPERTY; MAGNETITE; MAGNETOMETER; PALEOMAGNETISM; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; ROCK PROPERTY; THERMOREMANENT MAGNETIZATION;

EID: 80053198145     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2011.06.007     Document Type: Article

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