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.
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1. THE PHYSICS OF MAGNETISM2. 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
Over de auteur
Lisa Tauxe is Professor of Geophysics at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
Taal Engels ● Formaat PDF ● Pagina’s 512 ● ISBN 9780520946378 ● Bestandsgrootte 35.9 MB ● Uitgeverij University of California Press ● Gepubliceerd 2010 ● Editie 1 ● Downloadbare 24 maanden ● Valuta EUR ● ID 4995868 ● Kopieerbeveiliging Adobe DRM
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