ARCHAEOMAGNETIC SECULAR VARIATION OF DIRECTION AND PALEOINTENSITY IN THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST.

• Main Author: STERNBERG, ROBERT SAUL.
• Other Authors: Butler, Robert
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: The University of Arizona. 1982
• Subjects: Magnetometry in archaeology; Paleomagnetism > Southwest; New; Geomagnetism > Secular variations > Southwest; DuBois; Geomagnetic Pole
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/185349

Oriented archaeomagnetic samples were collected from 158 in situ features at 33 sites in the southwestern U.S. Seventy-three independently dated features were used for analysis of secular variation. A moving-window smoothing technique with outlier rejection was developed to objectively compute a vir...