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Journal Articles Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems Year : 2003

Earth's magnetic field in the early 19th century from French sources

Andrew Jackson
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Art R. T. Jonkers
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Anne Murray
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We present both a description of a new magnetic data set covering predominantly the 18th and 19th centuries and the results derived from it for the small window 1820-1850, from which the bulk of the data originate. The data set comprises measurements of declination taken overwhelmingly on French naval and hydrographic vessels. A list of the vessels is given for one of the data sets. When augmented by extant inclination measurements, the data are capable of resolving the magnetic field at the core-mantle boundary to a high degree of fidelity and thus are a valuable addition to the data set of historical geomagnetic measurements.

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insu-03598415 , version 1 (06-03-2022)

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Andrew Jackson, Art R. T. Jonkers, Mioara Mandea, Anne Murray. Earth's magnetic field in the early 19th century from French sources. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2003, 4, pp. 767-782. ⟨10.1029/2002GC000494⟩. ⟨insu-03598415⟩
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