Combined use of magnetometry and spectroscopy for identifying magnetofossils in sediments

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Kind, Jessica ^a   Gehring, Andreas Ulrich ^a   Winklhofer, Michael ^a,b   Hirt, Ann Marie ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

ferromagnetic resonance spectroscopy; first order reversal curves; magnetofossils; single domain particles; spectral separation

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; FERROMAGNETISM; IRON ORES; MAGNETIC DOMAINS; MAGNETIC HYSTERESIS; MAGNETITE; MAGNETIZATION REVERSAL; RESONANCE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS;

FERROMAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; FIRST-ORDER REVERSAL CURVES; MAGNETOFOSSILS; SINGLE DOMAIN PARTICLES; SPECTRAL SEPARATION;

FERROMAGNETIC RESONANCE;

BACTERIUM; FOSSIL RECORD; HOLOCENE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MAGNETITE; MAGNETOMETER; REMANENT MAGNETIZATION; SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84860417441     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GC003633     Document Type: Article

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