Physics
Scientific paper
Sep 2003
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003e%26psl.214..237g&link_type=abstract
Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 214, Issue 1-2, p. 237-242.
Physics
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Archaeomagnetism, Secular Variation, Jerks, Western Europe, Middle East
Scientific paper
Archaeomagnetism can provide a high-resolution full-vector description of the Earth's magnetic field for the past several thousand years. We analyse the bulk of archaeomagnetic data (both direction and intensity) obtained recently in Western Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean covering the past three millennia. We demonstrate a remarkable coincidence between sharp cusps in geomagnetic field direction and intensity maxima (two clear ones at ~AD 200 and 1400; two presently less well constrained at ~800 BC and AD 800). These sharp changes may constitute a new feature of geomagnetic secular variation (`archaeomagnetic jerks') with time characteristics intermediate between `geomagnetic jerks' and `magnetic excursions'.
Courtillot Vincent
Gallet Yves
Genevey Agnès
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