A comparison of a quasi-perpendicular method of absolute palaeointensity determination with other thermal and microwave techniques

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We describe, test, and explain the relative effectiveness of six thermal and microwave techniques of absolute palaeointensity determination applied to lava samples from Mount Etna (Sicily) that acquired their thermoremanence (TRM) in a known geomagnetic field. The application of a single alternating field demagnetisation treatment prior to each measurement in a standard Thellier experiment is demonstrated to be beneficial: increasing the quality of the results and making the analysis simpler. A new quasi-perpendicular (QP) method dramatically improves the linearity of Arai plots by reducing or altogether eliminating non-ideal effects due to multidomain (MD) grains. Two broad types of sample were encountered by this study and the QP method is the only one capable of producing accurate measurements from them both. Its ease of use, speed, and increased reliability should allow it to replace standard double heating methods in studies such as these where laboratory alteration can be detected by other means than pTRM checks. The results of experiments performed using a microwave palaeointensity system provide further proof that the microwave (de)magnetisation process is equivalent to conventional thermal excitation. They also demonstrate that microwave experiments are subject to the same risks as conventional experiments when performed on samples containing MD grains. The behaviour of the samples in both the thermal and microwave experiments is in good agreement with a recently proposed model of MD TRM which is based on first-order symmetry of the remagnetisation process.

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