Are burnt sediments reliable recorders of geomagnetic field strength?

Quaternary Research

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 326-330

  Calvo Rathert, Manuel ^a   Carrancho, Ángel ^a   Stark, Florian ^b   Villalaín, Juan José ^a   Hill, Mimi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BURGOS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Archeointensity; Burnt sediments; Prehistoric fire

Indexed keywords

ARCHEOINTENSITY; BURNT SOIL; FIELD VALUES; GEOMAGNETIC FIELDS; HIGHER TEMPERATURES; MEAN VALUES; MICROWAVE INTENSITY; PALEOINTENSITY; SINGLE DOMAINS; THERMALLY STABLE; THERMOREMANENT MAGNETIZATION;

EXPERIMENTS; GEOMAGNETISM; LITHOLOGY; REMANENCE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SOILS;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS;

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; BURNING; CLAY SOIL; FIRE HISTORY; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; HISTORICAL RECORD; MAGNETIC INTENSITY; MAGNETITE; MINERAL ALTERATION; MINERALOGY; PALEOMAGNETISM; PREHISTORIC; SEDIMENT; SOIL STRENGTH; THERMOREMANENT MAGNETIZATION;

EID: 84857784298     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2011.11.001     Document Type: Article

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