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| Author(s): |
Wilbor Poletti Silva
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto Astronômico e Geofísico (IAG/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2018-09-14 |
| Examining board members: |
Ricardo Ivan Ferreira da Trindade;
Daniel Ribeiro Franco;
Igor Ivory Gil Pacca;
Greig Alexander Paterson;
Katia Jasbinschek dos Reis Pinheiro
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| Advisor: | Ricardo Ivan Ferreira da Trindade; Gelvam Andre Hartmann |
| Abstract | |
Temporal variations of Earth\'s magnetic field provide a great range of geophysical information about the dynamics at different layers of the Earth. Since it is a planetary field, regional and global aspects can be explored, depending on the timescale of variations. In this thesis, the geomagnetic field variations for the last two millennia were investigated. For that, some improvement on the methods to recover the ancient magnetic field intensity from archeological material were done, new data was acquired and a critical assessment of the global archaeomagnetic database was performed. Two methodological advances are reported, comprising: i) the correction for microwave method of the cooling rate effect, which is associated to the difference between the cooling times during the manufactory of the material and that of the heating steps during the archaeointensity experiment; (ii) a test for thermoremanent anisotropy correction from the arithmetic mean of six orthogonal samples. The temporal variation of the magnetic intensity for South America was investigated from nine new data, three from ruins of the Guaraní Jesuit Missions and six from archaeological sites associated with jerky beef farms, both located in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, with ages covering the last 400 years. These data combined with the regional archaeointensity database, demonstrates that the influence of significant non-dipole components in South America started at ~1800 CE. Finally, from a reassessment of the global archaeointensity database, a new interpretation was proposed about the geomagnetic axial dipole evolution, where this component falls constantly since ~700 CE associated to the breaking of the symmetry of the advective sources operating in the outer core. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 13/16382-0 - Analysis of the historical geomagnetic field in South America |
| Grantee: | Wilbor Poletti Silva |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate (Direct) |