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Total Authors: 3
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| Affiliation: | [1] Univ Bologna, Bologna - Italy
[2] Ist Nazl Geofis & Vulcanol, Rome - Italy
[3] Univ Sao Paulo, IAG, BR-05508 Sao Paulo - Brazil
[4] Univ Calif San Diego, Scripps Inst Oceanog, Geosci Res Div, La Jolla, CA 92093 - USA
Total Affiliations: 4
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| Document type: | Journal article |
| Source: | PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS; v. 234, p. 1-13, SEP 2014. |
| Web of Science Citations: | 11 |
| Abstract | |
Paleointensity data from the Atlantic Ocean are rare. We present new paleointensity data from Sao Miguel (Azores Islands, Portugal) based on 20 paleomagnetic sites from 13 lava flows emplaced over the last 3000 years. Ten lava flows are radiocarbon dated, whereas three flows were paleomagnetically dated and one site was dated using stratigraphic relations. All the samples, previously investigated to recover paleo-directions, were subjected to IZZI experiments. Importantly, the new data are internally consistent, agree with Moroccan and European datasets, and offer new constraints for global geomagnetic field models. Some of the ages of the paleomagnetically dated lava flows have been revised based on the intensity data presented here. The inferred Virtual Axial Dipole Moments (VADMs) range from 68.2 to 163.5 ZAm(2). A peak in field strength with an estimated age of around 600 BC is well supported by two sites from the same flow (Furna), and is comparable to the high intensity values found in Portugal for the same age and the earlier field peak at about 1000 BC in the Levant. A gradient in VADM values with latitude from northwestern Africa and across Europe between 100 and 1000 AD is confirmed as well as its absence from between 0 to 100 AD. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 13/08938-8 - Precambrian paleointensity from the study of magmatic units of South America |
| Grantee: | Anita Di Chiara |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral |