Development of a Paleomagnetics Laboratory

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This award provides one-half the funding needed to acquire and install a modern cryogenic rock magnetometer in the Department of Marine Geology and Geophysics at the Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Sciences of the University of Miami. The remaining funds necessary will be provided by the University of Miami, which is committed to establishing a paleomagnetism research laboratory. The new instrument will be used primarily to investigate the origin of magnetization of organic matter in sediments and its application to magnetostratigraphy (precise dating of sediment layers by their location in a calibrated sequence of magnetization cycles).