Reconstruction of the geomagnetic field during the Late Quaternary in Scotland using lacustrine sedimentary records

• Main Author: Rada Torres, Myriam Andrea
• Other Authors: Tait, Jennifer, Whaler, Kathy
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: The University of Edinburgh 2019
• Subjects: Palaeosecular Variations; Palaeomagnetism; Palaeoenvironments; Tephrochronology; Geochronology; climate change; Late Pleistocene; Holocene; Geomagnetic excursions; Pompeii Tephra; Avellino Tephra; Canada; Glacial Lake; Greenland; Norway; Fennoscandia; glacier*; Greenland ice cores; Hekla; Ice Sheet; Iceland; North Atlantic; Siberia
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1842/35693

At about 2900km deep beneath our planet surface, there is a sharp boundary where solid rock from the Earth’s mantle gives way to the molten iron-nickel alloy comprising the Earth’s outer core, with temperatures over 2000ºC. Further 2200km deeper into the Earth, very high pressure turns the core into...