Communications Earth & Environment (Apr 2022)

Intermittent non-axial dipolar-field dominance of twin Laschamp excursions

  • Masayuki Hyodo,
  • Takeshi Nakagawa,
  • Hayato Matsushita,
  • Ikuko Kitaba,
  • Keitaro Yamada,
  • Shota Tanabe,
  • Balázs Bradák,
  • Masako Miki,
  • Danielle McLean,
  • Richard A. Staff,
  • Victoria C. Smith,
  • Paul G. Albert,
  • Christopher Bronk Ramsey,
  • Akiteru Yamasaki,
  • Junko Kitagawa,
  • Suigetsu 2014 Project

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00401-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The Laschamp Excursion and a further geomagnetic excursion shortly after were characterised by the intermittent dominance of non-axial dipolar-fields, according to high-resolution paleomagnetic measurements on precisely dated sediments from Lake Suigetsu, Japan