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Reversals of the Earth's magnetic field
- Title
- Reversals of the Earth's magnetic field / J.A. Jacobs.
- Author
- Jacobs, J. A. (John Arthur), 1916-2003.
- Publication
- Bristol : A. Hilger, ©1984.
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Details
- Description
- 230 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- THE EARTH'S MAGNETIC FIELD: Spherical harmonic analysis of the earth magnetic field -- Origin of the earth's magnetic field -- Mean field electrodynamics -- THE MAGNETISATION OF ROCKS: Self-reversal -- Field reversal or self-reversal? -- THE MORPHOLOGY OF GEOMAGNETIC REVERSAL: Field intensity during a polarity transition -- Field direction during a polarity transition -- Transition fields -- Changes in the mean frequency of reversals -- GEOMAGGNETIC EXCURSIONS: The Laschamp excursion -- The Lake Mungo excursion -- The Mono Lake excursion -- The Gothenburg flip -- Other excursions -- MODELS FOR REVERSALS: The disc Dynamo -- Theoretical models -- The models of Cox and Parker -- The secular variation, reversals and polarity bias -- Statistical analyses -- Non-dipole components of the paleomagnetic field -- MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY: Epoch boundaries -- Age and duration of events -- Extension of the polarity timescale -- Magnetostratigraphic polarity units -- THE EARTH'S MAGNETIC FIELD AND CLIMATE: The orbital climatic theory of Milankovitch -- The Earth's magnetic field and climate -- Magnetic reversal and changes in climate -- Magnetic reversal and faunal extinctions.
- ISBN
- 0852744420
- 9780852744420
- 0990300021
- 9780990300021
- LCCN
- 84115850
- OCLC
- ocm11973275
- 11973275
- SCSB-8791299
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library