Analysis of isothermal remanent magnetization acquisition curves using the expectation-maximization algorithm

Authors :: I.H.M van Oorschot
Pauline P. Kruiver
Mark J. Dekkers
David Heslop
Source :: Geophysical Journal International. 148:58-64
Publication Year :: 2002
Publisher :: Oxford University Press (OUP), 2002.
Abstract: SUMMARY The acquisition of isothermal remanent magnetization (IRM) curves through the application of stepwise-increasing uniaxial fields to a rock-magnetic sample provides an important non-destructive tool for the investigation of coercivity spectra (Dunlop

Subjects :: Materials science
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Natural remanent magnetization
Condensed matter physics
Coercivity
010502 geochemistry & geophysics
01 natural sciences
Rock magnetism
Isothermal process
Spectral line
Geophysics
Geochemistry and Petrology
Remanence
Stoner–Wohlfarth model
Expectation–maximization algorithm
0105 earth and related environmental sciences

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