Sentences with word «paleomagnetism»
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.
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«There are other, shorter, orbital cycles, but when you look into the past, it's very difficult to know which one you're dealing with at any one time, because they change over time,» said lead author Dennis Kent, an expert in paleomagnetism at Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory and Rutgers University.
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«What's more, the angrites» paleomagnetism constrains the lifetime of our own solar nebula, while astronomical observations obviously measure other faraway solar systems,» Wang adds.
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.
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.
I was here along with David Evans (Yale University) and Bin Wen (Nanjing University) to investigate Ediacaran motion of the Avalon microcontinent using paleomagnetism prior to and during the rise of the Ediacaran fauna.
Dr. Vincent Courtillot is a professor of geophysics at the University Paris - Diderot and Chair of paleomagnetism and geodynamics of the Institut Universitaire de France.
«Weak magnetic fields in nanocrystals don't just play a role in paleomagnetism.