HR: 17:30h
AN: GP22B-07 INVITED [PDF]
TI: Temporal and Spatial Resolution in Millennial-Scale Paleomagnetic and Archeomagnetic Field
Modeling
AU: * Constable, C
EM: cconstable@ucsd.edu
AF: University of California, San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography,, La Jolla, CA 92093-0225 United States
AU: Korte, M
EM: monika@gfz-potsdam.de
AF: GeoForschungs Zentrum Potsdam, Telegrafenberg, 14473 Potsdam, 14473
Germany
AU: Genevey, A
EM: agenevey@popmail.ucsd.edu
AF: University of California, San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography,, La Jolla, CA 92093-0225 United States
AB:
High resolution paleomagnetic and archeomagnetic observations provide a means of extending knowledge of
global and regional magnetic field variations to timescales of several thousands of years. Geomagnetic
field modeling techniques routinely used for the present and historical field are now being used
in paleomagnetic modeling where the temporal and spatial distribution of the observations is relatively
sparse, and the data are intrinsically much less accurate. A major limitation is the highly variable
accuracy of age constraints which contributes error in the form of secular variation in addition to
limitations imposed by the recording media and subsequent sampling and measurement techniques. This talk will
analyse the temporal and spatial resolution attainable in paleofield modeling of various kinds, and the
consequences on prospects for understanding paleomagnetic secular variation.
DE: 1503 Archeomagnetism
DE: 1522 Paleomagnetic secular variation
DE: 1555 Time variations--diurnal to secular
DE: 1560 Time variations--secular and long term
SC: Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism [GP]
MN: 2003 Fall Meeting