Physics
Scientific paper
Oct 2009
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009pepi..176..213t&link_type=abstract
Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, Volume 176, Issue 3-4, p. 213-223.
Physics
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Scientific paper
The magnetic fabric of 59 bricks coming from 5 ancient kilns has been studied by measuring the anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS) and the anisotropy of isothermal (AIRM), anhysteretic (AARM) and thermal (ATRM) remanent magnetization. The bricks are characterized by a well developed magnetic fabric that matches their flat shape. The shape of the anisotropy ellipsoids is in almost all cases oblate with the maximum and intermediate axes lying parallel to the large face of the brick and the minimum axis perpendicular to it. The directions of the principal axes are almost the same irrespectively of the type of anisotropy measured, whereas the degree of anisotropy of the AIRM, AARM and ATRM is much higher than the AMS. As the bricks lie horizontally within the kiln, the planar magnetic fabric results in an inclination shallowing of the archaeomagnetic direction with respect to that of the Earth's magnetic field at the time of their last cooling. Estimation of this effect on the grounds of ATRM measurements yields a shallowing that varies from 4° to 10° for individual samples. Such inclination difference may significantly bias archeomagnetic dating; for the case of the Canosa late-Roman kiln it leads to a dating error of more than two centuries.
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