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Essentials of Paleomagnetism
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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 PmagPy software package. An appendix contains a brief introduction to Python, an easy-to-use, cross-platform, and most important, free programming environment in which PmagPy programs are written.
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1Subtopic
Geology & Earth Sciences
a)
Calculate
the
magnetic
dipole
moment
of
the
model
dipole.
Remember
to
keep
track
of
your
units!
b)
Compare
this
ļ¬eld
to
the
total
ļ¬eld
produced
by
a
centered
axial
magnetic
dipole
moment
(i.e.,
one
that
is
pointing
straight
up
and
is
in
the
center
of
the
circles)
equivalent
to
that
of
the
present
geomagnetic
ļ¬eld
(
m
ā¼
80
ZAm
2
;
Z
=
10
21
).
Assume
a
latitude
for
the
point
of
observation
of
60
ā¦
.
[HINT:
the
angle
Īø
in
Equation
1.7
is
the
co-latitude,
not
the
latitude.]
PROBLEM
4
Knowing
that
B
=
Ī¼
o
H
,
work
out
the
fundamental
units
of
Ī¼
o
in
SI
units.
1.10
Problems
15
ThisĀ
pageĀ
intentionallyĀ
leftĀ
blank
Table of contents
- COVER
- TITLE
- COPYRIGHT
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- 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
- APPENDIX A: DEFINITIONS, DERIVATIONS, AND TRICKS
- APPENDIX B: PLOTS USEFUL IN PALEOMAGNETISM
- APPENDIX C: PALEOMAGNETIC STATISTICS AND PARAMETER ESTIMATION
- APPENDIX D: ANISOTROPY IN PALEOMAGNETISM
- APPENDIX E: THE MagIC DATABASE
- APPENDIX F: COMPUTER SKILLS
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
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