Rock and Mineral Magnetism

Rock and Mineral Magnetism by W. O'Reilly.

The past two decades have witnessed a revolution in the earth sciences. The quantitative, instrument-based measurements and physical models of. geophysics, together with advances in technology, have radically transformed the way in which the Earth, and especially its crust, is described. The study o...

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Main Author: O'Reilly, W. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 1984.
Edition:1st ed. 1984.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Magnetism.
Magnetic materials.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1 Introduction to the magnetism of rocks
  • 1.1 Rocks as magnetic information stores
  • 1.2 The recorded information
  • 1.3 Rock and mineral magnetism
  • 1.4 Magnetism—some preliminaries
  • 2 Magnetic minerals in rocks
  • 2.1 The magnetic mineral systems
  • 2.2 The magnetic mineralogy of igneous rocks
  • 2.3 The magnetic mineralogy of sediments
  • 2.4 The magnetic mineralogy of extra-terrestrial materials
  • 2.5 Summary
  • Selected bibliography
  • 3 The atomic basis of magnetism
  • 3.1 The electron spin; the transition elements
  • 3.2 Exchange
  • 3.3 Curie temperatures of spinel oxides
  • 3.4 Magnetocrystalline anisotropy
  • 3.5 Induced anisotropy
  • 3.6 Categories of magnetic behaviour
  • 3.7 Summary
  • Selected bibliography
  • 4 The magnetization process
  • 4.1 The demagnetizing field—shape anisotropy
  • 4.2 Domains and domain walls
  • 4.3 The magnetization process
  • 4.4 The time-dependence of magnetization—equilibrium and thermal agitation
  • 4.5 Summary
  • Selected bibliography
  • 5 Thermoremanent magnetization
  • 5.1 The mechanism—definitions of blocking temperature
  • 5.2 TRM models
  • 5.3 Thermal demagnetization—partial TRM
  • 5.4 Self-reversed TRM
  • 5.5 Summary
  • Selected bibliography
  • 6 Other remanence-inducing mechanisms
  • 6.1 Mechanisms in nature
  • 6.2 Mechanisms in the laboratory
  • 6.3 Summary
  • Selected bibliography
  • 7 Magnetic properties of titanomagnetites and titanomaghemites
  • 7.1 The titanomagnetites
  • 7.2 The titanomaghemites
  • 7.3 Multiphase products of the oxidation of titanomagnetite
  • 7.4 Summary
  • 8 Magnetic properties of other mineral systems
  • 8.1 Haematite
  • 8.2 The haematite-ilmenite solid solution
  • 8.3 The pyrrhotites
  • 8.4 Goethite
  • 8.5 Iron
  • 8.6 Alteration products of non-magnetic minerals
  • 8.7 Summary
  • 9 Applications of rock and mineral magnetism
  • 9.1 Introduction
  • 9.2 Physical models—the acquisition and removal of weak field remanences
  • 9.3 Determination of the composition, concentration and microstructure of the magnetic mineral fraction in a rock (or other material)
  • 9.4 Connections in planetary physics—the magnetization of planetary crusts
  • 9.5 Summary.

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