This field includes understanding how the ancient field was acquired in the remanent magnetization in different types of rocks (rock magnetism).Īnother key interest concerns geodynamic/tectonic studies, at different spatial and temporal scales and on several continents, but with an emphasis on the Alpine-Himalayan mountain belt. This work includes paleointentsity and paleosecular variation studies – from recent periods (archaeomagnetism), during periods when the field did not reverse (superchrons) - to properties of the earliest field more than 3 billions of years ago.
An important expertise of the research group is building high resolution and accurate time scales, using magnetostratigraphy and cyclostratigraphy (and astrochronology), based on correlation to astronomical solutions of past changes in the Earth’s orbit and rotation.Īnother major topic is the acquisition of reliable and detailed records of the geomagnetic field at all time scales, which serves to understand the past magnetic field of our planet Earth. The research of the Fort Hoofddijk Paleomagnetic Laboratory covers nearly all fields of paleomagnetism.
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