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Pacific geomagnetic secular variation Pacific geomagnetic secular variation

We have considered several different types of records of long-period geomagnetic secular variation: direct measurements made in geomagnetic observatories; paleomagnetic measurements on Hawaiian lava flows with accurately known ages in the interval 0 to 200 years; paleomagentic measurements on Hawaiian lava flows with loosely determined ages within the interval 200 to 10,000 years ago...
Authors
Richard R. Doell, A. Cox

Geomagnetic polarity epochs: age and duration of the olduvai normal polarity event Geomagnetic polarity epochs: age and duration of the olduvai normal polarity event

New data show that the Olduvai normal geomagnetic polarity event is represented in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, by rocks covering a time span of roughly from 0.1 to 0.2 my and is no older than 2.0 my. Hence the long normal polarity event of this age that is seen in deep-sea sediment cores and in magnetic profiles over oceanic ridges should be called the Olduvai event. The lava from which the
Authors
C. S. Grommé, R. L. Hay

A computer program to trace seismic ray distribution in complex two-dimensional geological models A computer program to trace seismic ray distribution in complex two-dimensional geological models

A computer program has been developed to trace seismic rays and their amplitudes and energies through complex two-dimensional geological models, for which boundaries between elastic units are defined by a series of digitized X-, Y-coordinate values. Input data for the program includes problem identification, control parameters, model coordinates and elastic parameter for the elastic...
Authors
Nazieh K. Yacoub, James H. Scott

History of the geomagnetic field History of the geomagnetic field

Direct measurements of the direction and strength of the earth's magnetic field have provided a knowledge of the field's form and behavior during the last few hundreds of years. For older times, however, it has been necessary to measure the magnetism of certain rocks to learn what the geomagnetic field was like. For example, when a lava flow solidifies (at temperatures near 1000°C) and...
Authors
Richard R. Doell
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