Quantifying magnetite magnetofossil contributions to sedimentary magnetizations

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 382, Issue , 2013, Pages 58-65

  Heslop, David ^a   Roberts, Andrew P ^a   Chang, Liao ^a,b   Davies, Maureen ^a   Abrajevitch, Alexandra ^a   De Deckker, Patrick ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biogenic magnetite; Brunhes chron; Magnetofossil; Natural remanent magnetization; Western Australia

Indexed keywords

BIOGENIC MAGNETITE; BRUNHES CHRON; MAGNETOFOSSIL; NATURAL REMANENT MAGNETIZATION; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOMAGNETISM; NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY;

MAGNETITE;

BIOGENIC DEPOSIT; CLIMATE VARIATION; FOSSIL; MAGNETITE; MARINE SEDIMENT; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOMAGNETISM; REMANENT MAGNETIZATION; SEDIMENT CORE;

AUSTRALIA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84884722303     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.09.011     Document Type: Article

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