The Earth's Magnetic Field

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Its History, Origin and Planetary Perspective

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McElhinny(Herausgeber*in)

Academic Press

Erschienen am 14. Mai 2014

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Front Cover
The Earth's Magnetic Field: Its History, Origin and Planetary Perspective
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface
Chapter One. History of Geomagnetism and Palaeomagnetism
1.1 The Magnetic Compass
1.2 Declination, Inclination and Secular Variation
1.3 Magnetic Charts and the Search for the Pole
1.4 Fossil Magnetism and the Magnetic Field in the Past
1.5 Transient Magnetic Variations-The External Magnetic Field
1.6 Origin of the Earth's Magnetic Field
Chapter Two. The Present Geomagnetic Field: Analysis and Description from Historical Observations
2.1 Magnetic Elements and Charts
2.2 Spherical Harmonic Analysis Description of the Earth's Magnetic Field
2.3 Uniqueness and Other Mathematical Problems
2.4 Geomagnetic Secular Variation: Time Variation of the Internal Sources
2.5 The External Magnetic Field
Chapter Three. Fundamentals of Palaeomagnetism
3.1 Rock Magnetism
3.2 Magnetic Mineralogy
3.3 Palaeomagnetic Directions and Poles
3.4 Palaeointensity Methods
Chapter Four. The Recent Geomagnetic Field: Palaeomagnetic Observations
4.1 Archaeomagnetic Results
4.2 Analysis of Recent Lake Sediments
4.3 Geomagnetic Excursions
4.4 The Geomagnetic Power Spectrum
Chapter Five. Reversals of the Earth's Magnetic Field
5.1 Evidence for Field Reversal
5.2 Marine Magnetic Anomalies
5.3 Analysis of Reversal Sequences
5.4 Behaviour During Polarity Transitions
Chapter Six. The Time-averaged Palaeomagnetic Field
6.1 Geocentric Axial Dipole Hypothesis
6.2 Second-order Terms
6.3 Variations in the Earth's Dipole Moment
6.4 Palaeosecular Variation
Chapter Seven. Origin of the Earth's Magnetic Field 1: Introduction and Physical Insight
7.1 Properties of the Earth's Interior
7.2 Some Non-dynamo Hypotheses
7.3 The Dynamo Problem
7.4 The Magnetic Induction Equation
7.5 General Concepts in Dynamo Theory
Chapter Eight. Origin of the Earth's Magnetic Field 2: Introduction to Advanced Dynamo Theory
8.1 Vector Spherical Harmonics
8.2 Kinematic Dynamos
8.3 Turbulent and Hydromagnetic Dynamos
Chapter Nine. The Origin of Secular Variation and Field Reversals
9.1 Secular Variation
9.2 Field Reversals
Chapter Ten. Palaeomagnetism and Dynamo Theory
10.1 Overview
10.2 Standing Field
10.3 Variations in the Geomagnetic Field
10.4 Core-Mantle Boundary
Chapter Eleven. Lunar Magnetism
11.1 Lunar Structure and Interior
11.2 The Present Magnetic Field
11.3 A Lunar Core?
11.4 Magnetic Properties of Lunar Rocks
11.5 Origin of the Lunar Magnetic Field
Chapter Twelve. Magnetic Fields of the Sun, Planets and Meteorites
12.1 Origin of the Solar System
12.2 The Sun
12.3 Meteorite Magnetism
12.4 Magnetic Fields of the Planets
12.5 Dynamos in the Solar System
Appendix A: SI and Gaussian CGS Units and Conversion Factors
Appendix B: Introduction to Universality Theory
References
Index

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