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Environmental Magnetism, Paleomagnetic Applications

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Introduction

Environmental magnetism involves magnetic measurements of environmental materials, including sediments, soils, rocks, mineral dust, anthropogenic pollutants, and biological materials. The magnetic properties of these materials can be highly sensitive to a broad range of environmental processes, which makes mineral magnetic studies widely useful in the environmental sciences. More detailed treatments of the breadth of environmental magnetic research applications, and definitions of magnetic parameters and their interpretation, can be found in recent review articles and books (e.g., Verosub and Roberts, 1995; Maher and Thompson 1999; Evans and Heller 2003; see also Environmental magnetism). Most environmental magnetic studies aptly focus on environmental interpretations. Nevertheless, environmental magnetism, whether explicitly stated as such or not, routinely plays an important role in paleomagnetic studies, including tectonic, geochronological, and geomagnetic...

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  1. Andrew P. Roberts
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  1. University of Leeds,  ,  

    David Gubbins

  2. University of Hawaii,  ,  

    Emilio Herrero-Bervera

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Roberts, A.P. (2007). Environmental Magnetism, Paleomagnetic Applications. In: Gubbins, D., Herrero-Bervera, E. (eds) Encyclopedia of Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4423-6_96

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