Reconstructing the Holocene geomagnetic field

Reconstructing the Geomagnetic Field in West Africa: First Absolute Intensity Results from Burkina Faso

We present absolute geomagnetic intensities from iron smelting furnaces discovered at the metallurgical site of Korsimoro, Burkina Faso. Up to now, archaeologists recognized four different types of furnaces based on different construction methods, which were related to four subsequent time periods. Additionally, radiocarbon ages obtained from charcoal confine the studied furnaces to ages rangin...

Predicting the Multifractal Geomagnetic Field

The geomagnetic field at the Earth’s surface is determined by a large number of current sources, internal and external, which vary at overlapping time scales. As a result, the time variation of the field, ranging from nHz to tens of Hz, can be modeled as a multifractal whose properties depend on frequency and activity level, with the latter being largely determined by the external driving due t...

Geomagnetic field behavior during the Iceland Basin and Laschamp geomagnetic excursions: A simple transitional field geometry?

[1] We present four new records of the Iceland Basin Excursion (IBE) and five new records of the Laschamp Excursion (LE) obtained from rapidly deposited marine sediments in the North Atlantic Ocean, the Nordic Seas, the Gulf of Mexico, the South China Sea, and the southern Indian Ocean. Marked minima in relative paleointensity correspond with the paleomagnetic directional changes associated wit...

On the Geomagnetic Lunar Daily Variation Field

The geomagnetic lunax daily variation field, L, was studied using all available results of lunar analysis of geomagnetic data from a total of 37 stations. Equivalent external (overhead) and internal (induced within the earth) electric current systems responsible for L variations with respect to dip latitude were estimated by the method of spherical harmonic analysis for each season. The externa...

The geomagnetic field variations and earthquake activity