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The time‐varying geomagnetic field
Author(s) -
Voorhies Coerte V.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
reviews of geophysics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 8.087
H-Index - 156
eISSN - 1944-9208
pISSN - 8755-1209
DOI - 10.1029/rg025i005p00929
Subject(s) - geophysics , earth's magnetic field , secular variation , geology , magnetosphere , dynamo theory , physics , dynamo , magnetic field , quantum mechanics
The scope of this review is limited to papers on the large scale geomagnetic field of deep internal origin and its secular variation published by U.S. authors and their colleagues during the 1983–1986 quadrennial. The many fine papers on this broad topic by authors outside the U.S. are regretfully excluded; fortunately, most of them are cited by the U.S. authors listed in the reference section of this review. LaBreque and Mayhew [this issue] review papers treating the smaller scale fields usually attributed to visco‐inductively and remanently magnetized crustal geologic structures. Review articles dealing with external fields are surveyed by M. Schulz in the Magnetosphere section of this U.S. National Report. Booker and Chave [this issue] review papers concerning the use of more rapidly fluctuating externally induced internal fields to probe the electrical properties of the crust and upper mantle. Lund and Olson [this issue] review papers concerning paleo‐secular variation and core geodynamo theory.