Environmental Magnetism

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   • Roy Thompson, Frank Oldfield

   Pages 1-2

3. Magnetic properties of solids

   • Roy Thompson, Frank Oldfield

   Pages 3-12

4. Natural magnetic minerals

   • Roy Thompson, Frank Oldfield

   Pages 13-20

5. Magnetic properties of natural materials

   • Roy Thompson, Frank Oldfield

   Pages 21-38

6. The Earth’s magnetic field

   • Roy Thompson, Frank Oldfield

   Pages 39-48

7. Techniques of magnetic measurements

   • Roy Thompson, Frank Oldfield

   Pages 49-64

8. Magnetic minerals and environmental systems

   • Roy Thompson, Frank Oldfield

   Pages 65-71

9. Soil magnetism

   • Roy Thompson, Frank Oldfield

   Pages 72-87

10. Magnetic minerals and fluvial processes

    • Roy Thompson, Frank Oldfield

    Pages 88-100

11. Mineral magnetic studies of lake sediments

    • Roy Thompson, Frank Oldfield

    Pages 101-123

12. Magnetic minerals in the atmosphere

    • Roy Thompson, Frank Oldfield

    Pages 124-140

13. Mineral magnetism in marine sediments

    • Roy Thompson, Frank Oldfield

    Pages 141-152

14. Reversal magnetostratigraphy

    • Roy Thompson, Frank Oldfield

    Pages 153-165

15. Secular variation magnetostratigraphy

    • Roy Thompson, Frank Oldfield

    Pages 166-177

16. Biomagnetism

    • Roy Thompson, Frank Oldfield

    Pages 178-183

17. The Rhode River, Chesapeake Bay, an integrated catchment study

    • Roy Thompson, Frank Oldfield

    Pages 185-197

18. Prospects

    • Roy Thompson, Frank Oldfield

    Pages 198-202

19. Back Matter

    Pages 203-227

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The scientist will be forced, in the unenthusiastic words of one of my scientific colleagues, 'to slosh about in the primordial ooze known as inter-disciplinary studies'. John Passmore Man's responsibility for nature The present text has arisen from some thirteen years advances in our perception, appraisal and creative use of collaboration between the two authors. During that of order in natural systems. Out of this can come period, upwards of a dozen postgraduates in enhanced insight into processes, structures and Edinburgh, the New University of Ulster and Liver­ systems interactions on all temporal and spatial scales pool have been closely involved in exploring many of and at all integrative levels from subatomic to cosmic. the applications of magnetic measurements described In the environment, elements of order are often in the second half of the book. Much of the text is difficult to appraise and analyse, not only because of based on their work, both published and unpublished. intrinsic complexity, but as a consequence of our lack A great deal of the work summarised reflects extensive of techniques, instrumentation and suitable co-operation not only between the authors and among methodologies. Magnetic properties, whether natural their postgraduate groups, but also involving or induced, reflect forms of order which, in recent colleagues in geology, geography, ecology, hydrology, years, have become dramatically more accessible to a meteorology, glaciology, archaeology, limnology, growing range of instruments and techniques.

• magnetism

• Department of Geophysics, University of Edinburgh, UK

  Roy Thompson

• Department of Geography, University of Liverpool, UK

  Frank Oldfield

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