Reconstructing the Holocene geomagnetic field

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 312, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 497-505

  Korte, Monika ^a   Constable, Catherine ^b   Donadini, Fabio ^c   Holme, Richard ^d  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Geomagnetism; Magnetic field models; Paleomagnetism; Secular variation

Indexed keywords

AGE CONSTRAINTS; AVERAGE FIELD; CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; DATA COMPILATION; EARTH'S MAGNETIC FIELD; EVOLUTION AND CHANGE; FIELD FLUX; FIELD MODEL; GEODYNAMO PROCESS; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD MODEL; GEOMAGNETIC FIELDS; HIGH LATITUDES; HOLOCENES; MAGNETIC COMPONENTS; MAGNETIC FIELD MODELS; PALEOMAGNETIC DATA; PALEOMAGNETISM; SECULAR VARIATION; SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL RELATIONSHIPS; SPHERICAL HARMONICS; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; TIME VARYING; TIME-VARYING STRUCTURE;

HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; STRATIGRAPHY; TIME VARYING SYSTEMS;

GEOMAGNETISM;

CORE-MANTLE BOUNDARY; GEODYNAMO; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HOLOCENE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOMAGNETISM; RECONSTRUCTION; SECULAR VARIATION;

AUSTRALIA; INDONESIA;

EID: 82155187089     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.10.031     Document Type: Article

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