Morphology of the Iceland Basin Excursion from a spherical harmonics analysis and an iterative Bayesian inversion procedure of sedimentary records

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 169, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 131-139

  Lanci, Luca ^a   Kissel, Catherine ^b   Leonhardt, Roman ^c   Laj, Carlo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

^b INSTITUT PIERRE SIMON LAPLACE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEOBEN   (Austria)

Author keywords

Bayesian inversion models; Geomagnetic excursion; Iceland Basin Excursion; Spherical harmonics; Transitional field

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN INVERSION MODELS; GEOMAGNETIC EXCURSION; ICELAND BASIN EXCURSION; SPHERICAL HARMONICS; TRANSITIONAL FIELD;

GEOMAGNETISM; HARMONIC ANALYSIS;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BRUNHES CHRON; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; INVERSE PROBLEM; MAGNETIC REVERSAL; MATUYAMA CHRON; PALEOMAGNETISM; RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE; SPHERICAL HARMONICS; VIRTUAL GEOMAGNETIC POLE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); ATLANTIC OCEAN (WEST); ICELAND BASIN;

FABIA;

EID: 84873189610     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2008.06.004     Document Type: Article

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