(Chapter Headings): Introduction and a Little History. The Earth's Magnetic Field. The Magnetization Process. Laboratory Techniques. Magnetic Properties of Marine Sediments. Fundamentals of Reversal Magnetostratigraphy. The Plio-Pleistocene Reversal Record. Seafloor Spreading Anomalies and the Magnetic Polarity Timescale. The Cenozoic Marine Record. Magnetic Stratigraphy of Cenozoic Terrestrial Deposits. Mesozoic Magnetostratigraphy in Marine Sediments. Magnetic Stratigraphy ofthe Lower Mesozoic and Paleozoic. Secular Variation Magnetostratigraphy in Lake Sediments. Rock Magnetic Stratigraphy. Subject Index.
Key Features
* Discusses pioneering work in the use of marine sediments to
investigate the Earths magnetic field
* Serves as a guide for students wishing to begin studies in
magnetostratigraphy
* Provides a comprehensive guide to magnetic polarity stratigraphy
including up-to-date geomagnetic polarity time scales
* Correlates magnetic stratigraphics from marine and non-marine
Cenozoic sequences
* Details reversal history of the magnetic field for the last 350
million years
* Discusses correlation using magnetic dipole intensity changes
* Up-to-date correlation of biostratigraphy with magnetic
stratigraphy through the late Jurassic
Neil D. Opdyke was the winner of the Fleming Medal of the American Geophysical Union in 1996, the george P. Woollard Award of the Geological Society of America in 1987, and the Stillwell Award of the Geological Society of Australia in 1982. He earned his Ph.D. at Durham University, England, in 1958, and went on to get his D.Sc. at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1982. Opdyke is currently a Full Professor in the Department of Geology at the University of Florida, a Fellow of the Geological Society of America, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union.
"...this book is a very lucid, up-to-date account of the subject
and is very clearly written and very well illustrated. It is also
very well referenced..." --D. H. Tarling, University of Plymouth,
GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL, January 1999
"...the authors present an excellent and very detailed review of
the methods for coupling both the GPTS and magnetostratigraphic
sequences with absolute ages. A virtue of this book is its wealth
of sources, figures and tables; all indispensable in the case of
such a complex matter. It should as well be in all palaeomagnetic
and stratigraphic laboratories on the strength of its
comprehensiveness and cross-relationships among different branches
of Earth sciences." --Mark Lewandowski in PURE AND APPLIED
GEOPHYSICS
"This book has much to offer. First, it serves as a succinct and
practical introduction to those aspects of geomagnetism and
paleomagnetism that are relevant to magnetostratigraphy. Second, it
provides an up-to-date discussion of the polarity-reversal history
derived from remote sensing of the magnetization of the oceanic
crust....Third, the authors have produced a grand synthesis of
existing magnetostratigraphic data....And finally, they step back
and see what can be learned about the behavior of the geomagnetic
field from the long record they have reconstructed....Magnetic
Stratigraphy is handsome, very readable, and persuasive; most
readers will wonder (as the authors do occasionally) why more
boundaries in the geologic timescale are not tied directly to our
planets geomagnetic pulse." --SCIENCE
"This book fills a certain gap in palaeomagnetic bibliography that
was lacking of a serparate, comprehensive edition on the basis of
magnetic polarity stratigraphy and its geological applications. A
virtue of this book is its wealth of sources, figures and tables;
all indispensable in the case of such a complex matter. The book
may be recommeded to graduate students endeavoring to specialize in
geomagnetism and/or palaeomagnetism." --PURE AND APPLIED
GEOPHYSICS, 1997
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