Essentials of Paleomagnetism / Lisa Tauxe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tauxe, Lisa, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paleomagnetism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (506 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2010]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780520946378

0520946375

OCLC:

851972273