Nature Communications (Mar 2022)

Stalagmite paleomagnetic record of a quiet mid-to-late Holocene field activity in central South America

  • Plinio Jaqueto,
  • Ricardo I. F. Trindade,
  • Filipe Terra-Nova,
  • Joshua M. Feinberg,
  • Valdir F. Novello,
  • Nicolás M. Stríkis,
  • Peter Schroedl,
  • Vitor Azevedo,
  • Beck E. Strauss,
  • Francisco W. Cruz,
  • Hai Cheng,
  • R. Lawrence Edwards

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28972-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The South Atlantic Anomaly has the lowest intensity of the geomagnetic field. A stalagmite, from Brazil shows through its magnetic remanence that in mid-to-late Holocene this anomaly, was not being expressed or recurrent at surface in millennial scale.