One timeless challenge in rock magnetic studies, inclusive of paleomagnetism and environmental magnetism, is decomposing a sample’s bulk magnetic behavior into its individual magnetic mineral components. We present a method permitting to decompose the magnetic behavior of a bulk sample experimentally and at low temperature avoiding any ambiguities in data interpretation due to heating-induced a...

It is common in the fields of rock and environmental magnetism to unmix magnetic mineral components using statistical methods that decompose various types of magnetization curves (e.g., acquisition, demagnetization, or backfield). A number of programs have been developed over the past decade that are frequently used by the rock magnetic community, however many of these programs are either outda...

A single domain ferromagnetic particle is characterized by an internal potential, having several local states of equilibrium with potential barriers between them. If the particles are small ~; 10 nm! so that the potential barriers are relatively low, the magnetization vector M may cross over the barriers due to thermal agitation. The ensuing thermal instability of the magnetization results in t...

Bruce M. Moskowitz,1 Dennis A. Bazylinski,2 Ramon Egli,3 Richard B. Frankel4 and Katrina J. Edwards5 1Institute for Rock Magnetism, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, 310 Pillsbury Dr, SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA. E-mail: [email protected] 2School of Life Sciences, University of Nevada-Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV 89154-4004, USA 3Department of Earth and Envir...