During Ocean Drilling Program Leg 202, detailed shipboard paleomagnetic measurements at Sites 1233 and 1234 identified a reproducible high-resolution record of paleomagnetic secular variation (PSV) at each site. These records also contained evidence for three magnetic field excursions. This paper summarizes the complete paleomagnetic record from Site 1233 and the...
Magnetotelluric (MT) data from two sites 150 and
300 km southeast of San Francisco, California (geomagnetic
dipole latitude: 43 degrees, L approximately 1.9) show that
the usual MT assumption of spatially uniform external magnetic
fields is violated to a significant degree in the period
range 10-30 s. Inter-station transfer functions...
We carried out a detailed rock magnetic and paleomagnetic study of deep-sea sediments from selected intervals of Site 1233 in order to assess whether they contain reproducible evidence for submillennial-scale environmental, climatic, and geomagnetic field variability. Three 1.5-m sediment intervals from oxygen isotope Stages 1, 2, and 3 were sampled...
The issue of permanent nondipole contributions to the time-averaged field lies at the very heart of
paleomagnetism and the study of the ancient geomagnetic field. In this paper we focus on paleomagnetic
directional results from igneous rocks of the southwestern U.S.A. in the age range 0–5 Ma and investigate
both...
The submarine Amsterdam-St. Paul (ASP) Plateau, bisected by the Southeast Indian Ridge (SEIR), is a bathymetric high rising ~2 km above the surrounding seafloor that includes the islands of Amsterdam and St. Paul; this excess volcanism is attributed to a mantle hot spot. We obtained new Sr, Nd, and Pb...
We report the intercalibration of paleomagnetic secular variation (PSV) and expanded postglacial sediment cores from geographically proximal, but sedimentologically contrasting settings. The objective is to improve relative what can be achieved with either method alone. Core MD99-2269 was taken from north Iceland shelf. Core MD99-2322 was collected from the Kangerlussuaq...
The current satellite magnetic missions offer new
opportunities to determine the electrical conductivity of the
Earth. However, satellites are nearly stationary in local time
and therefore sample the inducing and induced fields quite
differently than geomagnetic observatories, which rotate
with the Earth. We show that estimates of induction transfer
functions...
Although satellite electromagnetic induction studies
have usually assumed a symmetric magnetospheric ring
current source, there is growing evidence for significant
source asymmetry. Here we apply empirical orthogonal
function methods to mid-latitude night-side hourly mean
geomagnetic observatory data to search for evidence of nonzonal
low-frequency source fields. The dominant spatial
mode...
We present a decade-long (1981–1990) high-resolution (subseasonal) record of Pb and Cd concentrations and Pb isotopic composition in a series of 119 snow samples from a 6-m snow pit at Summit, Greenland. Both metals show order of magnitude seasonal variability, with maxima in spring of every year, coinciding with sulfate...
More than 7 km of long and relatively continuous sediment sequences
from 11 sites in the southeast and equatorial Pacific were recovered
during Leg 202 for the study of the Earth’s climate and biogeochemical
systems on scales that range from tectonic (millions of
years) to orbital (tens to hundreds of...