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Magnetic stratigraphy /

Magnetic Stratigraphy is the most comprehensive book written in the English language on the subject of magnetic polarity stratigraphy and time scales. This volume presents the entirety of the known geomagneticrecord, which now extends back about 300 million years. The book includes the results of cu...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Opdyke, Neil D.
Other Authors: Channell, J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: San Diego : Academic Press, �1996.
Series:International geophysics series ; v. 64.
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Table of Contents:
  • (Chapter Headings): Introduction and a Little History. The Earth's Magnetic Field. The Magnetization Process. Laboratory Techniques. Magnetic Properties of Marine Sediments. Fundamentals of Reversal Magnetostratigraphy. The Plio-Pleistocene Reversal Record. Seafloor Spreading Anomalies and the Magnetic Polarity Timescale. The Cenozoic Marine Record. Magnetic Stratigraphy of Cenozoic Terrestrial Deposits. Mesozoic Magnetostratigraphy in Marine Sediments. Magnetic Stratigraphy ofthe Lower Mesozoic and Paleozoic. Secular Variation Magnetostratigraphy in Lake Sediments. Rock Magnetic Stratigraphy. Subject Index.