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    Magnetic Stratigraphy

    By Meil D. Opdyke and James E.T. Channell

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    Magnetic Stratigraphy is the most comprehensive book written in the English language on the subject of magnetic polarity stratigraphy and time scales. This volume presents the entirety of the known geomagneticrecord, which now extends back about 300 million years. The book includes the results of current research on sea floor spreading, magnetic stratigraphy of the Pliocene and Pleistocene, and postulations on the Paleozoic. Also included are both historicalbackground and applications of magnetostratigraphy. Individual chapters on correlation are presented, using changes in magnetic properties and secular variation.

    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
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherElsevier Science
    Release dateNov 19, 1996
    ISBN9780080535722
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    Magnetic Stratigraphy
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    Meil D. Opdyke

    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.

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