Lisa Tauxe 
Essentials of Paleomagnetism 

More than 400 years ago William Gilbert said, ‘The Earth itself is a great magnet.’ Today, we know that it is also a great magnetic tape recorder. This work is a comprehensive, up-to-date textbook on extracting and using rock and paleomagnetic data in archaeological, geological, and geophysical applications. Designed for students and professionals with knowledge of college level physics and some background in earth sciences, it describes both the theory and the practice of paleomagnetism, covering topics such as the basics of magnetism, geomagnetic fields, how rocks become magnetized, and the various ways of analyzing the magnetism of rocks. The book uses the companion Pmag Py software package. An appendix contains a brief introduction to Python, an easy-to-use, cross-platform, and most important, free programming environment in which Pmag Py programs are written.

Table des matières

1. THE PHYSICS OF MAGNETISM

2. THE GEOMAGNETIC FIELD

3. INDUCED AND REMANENT MAGNETISM

4. MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY AND DOMAINS

5. MAGNETIC HYSTERESIS

6. MAGNETIC MINERALOGY

7. HOW ROCKS GET AND STAY MAGNETIZED

8. APPLIED ROCK (ENVIRONMENTAL) MAGNETISM

9. GETTING A PALEOMAGNETIC DIRECTION

10. PALEOINTENSITY

11. FISHER STATISTICS

12. BEYOND FISHER STATISTICS

13. PALEOMAGNETIC TENSORS

14. THE ANCIENT GEOMAGNETIC FIELD

15. THE GPTS AND MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY

16. TECTONIC APPLICATIONS OF PALEOMAGNETISM

A propos de l’auteur

Lisa Tauxe is Professor of Geophysics at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.