Recent Applications and Advances in Environmental Magnetism
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Earth Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 December 2022) | Viewed by 3044
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Environmental magnetism is based on analyses of sediments’ and rocks’ magnetic properties. These are carried out in the field or at laboratory and are aimed at better understanding environmental processes and their variations in time and/or in space. The advantages of this method are the rapid and mostly non-destructive measurements and numerous applications. Magnetic parameters are successfully used as proxies e.g., in paleoclimate, paleoceanographic, and archeomagnetic studies, to identify tephra layers, to correlate stratigraphic sequences, and to monitor anthropogenic air and soil pollution. For these reasons, environmental magnetism is employed in the most important oceanic and continental drilling programs.
Over the last decade, the development of new techniques such as the use of the hysteresis and first-order reversal curve diagrams or out-of-phase magnetic susceptibility often related to instrument innovation has improved the efficiency of the method.
This Special Issue aims to collect manuscripts on novel approaches and new experiments regarding environmental magnetism and rock magnetism.
Topics may include but are not limited to the following:
- Sedimentary processes
- Magnetic minerals
- Iron biomineralization
- Paleoclimate
- Paleoceanography
- Archeomagnetism
- Air and soil pollution
- Magnetic minerals in polar ice
- Speleothem magnetism
Dr. Alessandra Venuti
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Environmental magnetism
- Magnetic properties
- Magnetic minerals
- Rock magnetism
- Magnetic proxies
- Remanent magnetization
