Rock Magnetism is a comprehensive treatment of fine particle magnetism and the magnetic properties of rocks. Starting from atomic magnetism and magnetostatic principles, the authors explain why domains and micromagnetic structures form in ferromagnetic crystals and how these lead to magnetic memory in the form of thermal, chemical and other remanent magnetizations. The phenomenal stability of these magnetizations, providing a record of plate tectonic motions over millions of years, is explained by thermal activation theory. One chapter is devoted to practical tests of domain state and paleomagnetic stability; another deals with pseudo-single-domain magnetism. The final four chapters place magnetism in the context of igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic, and extraterrestrial rocks. This book will be of great value to graduate students and researchers in geophysics and geology, particularly in paleomagnetism and rock magnetism, as well as physicists and electrical engineers interested in fine-particle magnetism and magnetic recording.
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"...successfully combine[s] rigorous theoretical treatment of the fundamentals of rock magnetism with a necessarily more descriptive discussion of frontier areas in which all is not yet clear...an excellent, comprehensive text written by prominent researchers in rock magnetism...surely an invaluable source for all workers in the field for a long time. The book is not only well written, but well produced, with fine diagrams and layout." Physics Today
"Whether the reader is a frequent or casual user of the techniques of paleomagnetism or a theoretical geomagnetist wondering about the quality of paleomagnetic field intensity records, Dunlop and Özdemir's book would be a valuable and comprehensive resource." Science
"Whether the reader is a frequent or casual user of the techniques of paleomagnetism or a theoretical geomagnetist wondering about the quality of paleomagnetic field intensity records, Dunlop and Özdemir's book would be a valuable and comprehensive resource." Science
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This book is a comprehensive treatment of fine particle magnetism and the magnetic properties of rocks. Starting from atomic magnetism and magneotistic principles, the authors explain why domains and micromagnetic structures form in ferrmagnetic crystals and how these lead to magnetic memory in the form of thermal, chemical and other remanent magnetizations. This book will be of value to graduate students and researchers in geophysics and geology, particularly in palemagnetism and rock magnetism, as well as physicists and electrical engineers interested in fine-particle magnetism and magnetic recording.
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This book is the best of its kind! Scientifically rigorous, easily understandable, exceptionally comprehensive and has much useful information.
It covers the basics of magnetism through to fine details of rock/soil magnetism. This subject is complex and it does take a book of its length of 600 pages to cover it. The book is well written and concise. It is possibly atypical of books of this nature in that it concentrates more on maths and the physics, rather than "environmental" aspects. It does not include the geology of rock/soil formation etc, nor related subjects such as ferrofluids, industrial ferrites etc, nor measurement techniques. Rather, it sticks to the subject and for this reason is exceptionally comprehensive.
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- Magnetite Biomineralization and Magnetoreception in Organisms: A New Biomagnetism (Topics in Geobiology) by Joseph L. Kirschvink in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Oxide Minerals (Reviews in Mineralogy, Vol 3) by D. Rumble in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Oxide Minerals: Petrologic and Magnetic Significance (Reviews in Mineralogy Series Volume 25) by D. H. Lindsley in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Introduction to Solid State Physics by Charles Kittel on page 30, and Back Matter
- Life in the Sea - Atlantic Ocean by Leighton Taylor in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Environmental Magnetism, Volume 86: Principles and Applications of Enviromagnetics (International Geophysics) by Mark Evans MD FRCP in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Magnetic Domains: The Analysis of Magnetic Microstructures by Alex Hubert in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Advanced Magnetic Nanostructures by D.J. Sellmyer on page 9
- Magnetism: Molecules to Materials IV by Joel S. Miller on page 229
- Paleomagnetic Principles and Practice (Modern Approaches in Geophysics) by L. Tauxe in Back Matter
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