Essentials of Paleomagnetism

✍ Scribed by Lisa Tauxe

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 505
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

CONTENTS
PREFACE
CHAPTER 1. THE PHYSICS OF MAGNETISM
CHAPTER 2. THE GEOMAGNETIC FIELD
CHAPTER 3. INDUCED AND REMANENT MAGNETISM
CHAPTER 4. MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY AND DOMAINS
CHAPTER 5. MAGNETIC HYSTERESIS
CHAPTER 6. MAGNETIC MINERALOGY
CHAPTER 7. HOW ROCKS GET AND STAY MAGNETIZED
CHAPTER 8. APPLIED ROCK (ENVIRONMENTAL) MAGNETISM
CHAPTER 9. GETTING A PALEOMAGNETIC DIRECTION
CHAPTER 10. PALEOINTENSITY
CHAPTER 11. FISHER STATISTICS
CHAPTER 12. BEYOND FISHER STATISTICS
CHAPTER 13. PALEOMAGNETIC TENSORS
CHAPTER 14. THE ANCIENT GEOMAGNETIC FIELD
CHAPTER 15. THE GPTS AND MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY
CHAPTER 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