Reversals of the earth's magnetic field / J.A. Jacobs
- Bib ID:
- 1993823
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Jacobs, J. A. (John Arthur), 1916-
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- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Description:
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- Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1994
- viii, 346 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0521450721
- Full contents:
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- 5.9. Gubbins' model. 5.10. Statistical analyses
- 6. Transition fields. 6.2. The Matuyama-Brunhes transition. 6.3. The Olduvai transition. 6.4. The Cobb Mountain transition. 6.5. Longitudinal confinement of transitional VGPs. 6.6. Clustering of VGPs. 6.7. The Steens Mountain reversal. 6.8. Other rapid reversals
- 7. Magnetostratigraphy. 7.2. Magnetostratigraphic polarity units. 7.3. The polarity time scale. 7.4. Isotopic dating of magnetic anomalies. 7.5. The Cenozoic-late Cretaceous timescale (0-83 Ma). 7.6. The late Jurassic and early Cretaceous timescale [actual symbol not reproducible]. 7.7. Magnetostratigraphy in the Jurassic and earlier
- 8. The Earth's magnetic field and other geophysical phenomena. 8.2. The orbital climatic theory of Milankovitch. 8.3. The Earth's magnetic field, reversals and climate.
- Partial contents:
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- 1. The Earth's magnetic field. 1.2. Spherical harmonic analysis of the Earth's magnetic field. 1.3. Origin of the Earth's magnetic field. 1.4. Mean-field electrodynamics
- 2. The magnetization of rocks. 2.2. Processes of magnetization in rocks. 2.3. Self-reversal. 2.4. Field reversal or self-reversal?
- 3. The morphology of geomagnetic reversals. 3.2. Field intensity during a polarity transition. 3.3. Field direction during a polarity transition. 3.4. Changes in the mean frequency of reversals
- 4. Geomagnetic excursions. 4.2. The Laschamp excursion. 4.3. The Lake Mungo excursion. 4.4. The Mono Lake excursion. 4.5. The Gothenburg 'flip'. 4.6. The Blake event. 4.7. Lake Biwa events. 4.8. Other excursions and short period events
- 5. Models for reversals. 5.2. The models of Cox and Parker. 5.3. The disc dynamo. 5.4. The flooding model of Hoffman. 5.5. Olson's model. 5.6. Williams and Fuller's model. 5.7. Dynamo families. 5.8. McFadden's and Merrill's models.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [294]-339) and index.
- Subject:
- Geomagnetism
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 1994
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