scholarly journals Two Records of Relative Paleointensity for the Past 4 Myr

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Pierre Valet ◽  
Anojh Thevarasan ◽  
Franck Bassinot ◽  
Tatiana Savranskaia ◽  
Naoufel Haddam
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiabo Liu ◽  
Norbert Nowaczyk ◽  
Xufeng Zheng ◽  
Qinsong Liu ◽  
Helge Arz

<p>Paleomagnetic records reconstructed from globally distributed marine sediments have greatly improved our understanding of long-term paleosecular variations and geomagnetic excursions. Nevertheless, questions regarding to the development of the geomagnetic field anomaly in the Southern Atlantic Ocean and the asymmetric geomagnetic field between Northern and Southern Hemispheres are not yet satisfactorily resolved. Paleomagnetic data, particularly from the Southern Hemisphere, is needed to better define the global geomagnetic field configurations spanning paleosecular variations and excursions. In this study, three sediment cores (PS97-085, PS97-84, PS97-079) recovered from the Drake Passage, Southern Ocean were subjected to detailed rock magnetic and paleomagnetic investigations. Preliminary age models were obtained by correlating their magnetic susceptibility to the ẟ<sup>18</sup>O master record from Dome C, Antarctica. In addition, rock magnetic records of the studied PS97 cores were further correlated to that of core PS67/197-1 with AMS <sup>14</sup>C age constraints. The results from PS97 cores are thus continuously covering the past about 110 ka. Rock magnetic results indicate titanomagnetite is the dominant magnetic carrier in the studied PS97 cores. Relative paleointensities (RPI) derived from these PS97 cores are comparable with the regional relative paleointensity records and the South Atlantic paleointensity stack (SAPIS). Additionally, anomalous inclinations at about 41 ka and 35 ka, observed in core PS97-085, are coeval with the Laschamps and the Mono Lake excursions, respectively. This study provides new paleomagnetic records from the Southern Ocean, though further age constrains are needed to consolidate the paleomagnetic interpretations. The up to now obtained paleomagnetic records, together with previous studies from the Southern Ocean, are aiming to clarify the asymmetric pattern of non-dipole geomagnetic field between Northern and Southern Hemispheres.</p>


2004 ◽  
Vol 49 (9) ◽  
pp. 948-952 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yong Wang ◽  
Zhenqing Chi ◽  
Tehquei Lee ◽  
Longrui Min ◽  
Huiyair Chu

2003 ◽  
Vol 03 (01) ◽  
pp. L63-L72 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. S. LIU ◽  
R. KOLENKIEWLCZ ◽  
C. WADE

Orbital noise of Earth's obliquity can provide an insight into the core of the Earth that causes intensity fluctuations in the geomagnetie field. Here we show that noise spectrum of the obliquity frequency have revealed a series of frequency periods centered at 250-, 100-, 50-, 41-, 30-, and 26-kyr which are almost identical with the observed spectral peaks from the composite curve of 33 records of relative paleointensity spanning the past 800 kyr (Sint–800 data). A continuous record for the past two million years also reveals the presence of the major 100 kyr periodicity in obliquity noise and geomagnetic intensity fluctuations. These results of correlation suggest that obliquity noise may power the dynamo, located in the liquid outer core of the Earth, which generates the geomagnetic field.


1967 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 405
Author(s):  
F. J. Kerr

A continuum survey of the galactic-centre region has been carried out at Parkes at 20 cm wavelength over the areal11= 355° to 5°,b11= -3° to +3° (Kerr and Sinclair 1966, 1967). This is a larger region than has been covered in such surveys in the past. The observations were done as declination scans.


1962 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 133-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harold C. Urey

During the last 10 years, the writer has presented evidence indicating that the Moon was captured by the Earth and that the large collisions with its surface occurred within a surprisingly short period of time. These observations have been a continuous preoccupation during the past years and some explanation that seemed physically possible and reasonably probable has been sought.


1961 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
John R. W. Small

It is generally accepted that history is an element of culture and the historian a member of society, thus, in Croce's aphorism, that the only true history is contemporary history. It follows from this that when there occur great changes in the contemporary scene, there must also be great changes in historiography, that the vision not merely of the present but also of the past must change.


1962 ◽  
Vol 11 (02) ◽  
pp. 137-143
Author(s):  
M. Schwarzschild

It is perhaps one of the most important characteristics of the past decade in astronomy that the evolution of some major classes of astronomical objects has become accessible to detailed research. The theory of the evolution of individual stars has developed into a substantial body of quantitative investigations. The evolution of galaxies, particularly of our own, has clearly become a subject for serious research. Even the history of the solar system, this close-by intriguing puzzle, may soon make the transition from being a subject of speculation to being a subject of detailed study in view of the fast flow of new data obtained with new techniques, including space-craft.


1979 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 96-101
Author(s):  
J.A. Graham

During the past several years, a systematic search for novae in the Magellanic Clouds has been carried out at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory. The Curtis Schmidt telescope, on loan to CTIO from the University of Michigan is used to obtain plates every two weeks during the observing season. An objective prism is used on the telescope. This provides additional low-dispersion spectroscopic information when a nova is discovered. The plates cover an area of 5°x5°. One plate is sufficient to cover the Small Magellanic Cloud and four are taken of the Large Magellanic Cloud with an overlap so that the central bar is included on each plate. The methods used in the search have been described by Graham and Araya (1971). In the CTIO survey, 8 novae have been discovered in the Large Cloud but none in the Small Cloud. The survey was not carried out in 1974 or 1976. During 1974, one nova was discovered in the Small Cloud by MacConnell and Sanduleak (1974).


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