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Geomagnetic Field Behavior Before And After The Kauai Reverse-Normal Polarity Transition, Scott Bogue
Geomagnetic Field Behavior Before And After The Kauai Reverse-Normal Polarity Transition, Scott Bogue
Scott Bogue
New paleomagnetic results from 4 m.y. old lava flows from Kauai, Hawaii, suggest that strong poloidal field is associated with an unusual state of the geodynamo that follows attempts at polarity reversal (successful or not). The new data comprise 50 paleomagnetic sites from superposed lava flows occurring just below and above the Kauai reverse-normal polarity transition. A composite record of 45 distinct field determinations was constructed by combining sites that record similar ancient field and correlating them to previously published results from Kauai. Of the 45 data, 25 include paleointensity estimates derived from double-heating experiments. A comparison of the composite …