Sentences with phrase «in paleomagnetism»

«Weak magnetic fields in nanocrystals don't just play a role in paleomagnetism.

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Horner and his experienced colleagues — a structural geologist; a stratigrapher; a taphonomist (one who studies what happens to animals after they die); paleontologists specializing in vertebrate, mammalian, plant, and mollusk fossils; a molecular paleontologist; and an expert on paleomagnetism — are surveying all the fauna and flora that existed during the Hell Creek period (and that survived as fossils), the ways they interacted, and how they may have evolved.

Scientists in the area of paleomagnetism use magnetic minerals to investigate the history of the earth's magnetic field and its formation from molten metal flowing within the earth's core, the so - called geodynamo.

Now Fassett has examined 30 more dinosaur fossils in the same rock formation and completed a more extensive analysis of the surrounding environment, taking into account paleomagnetism, fossil leaves, pollen, spores, and the geochemistry of the area.

In 2006, Tarduno led an expedition to the Arctic to study paleomagnetism — the Earth's magnetic field in the distant pasIn 2006, Tarduno led an expedition to the Arctic to study paleomagnetism — the Earth's magnetic field in the distant pasin the distant past.