Upgrading the Paleomagnetic Research Facility at the University of Pittsburgh

该奖项提供了所需资金的一半， 交流场消磁器系统的获取将被 在地质和行星系安装和运行 匹兹堡大学的科学系。大学是 承诺提供剩余资金。 在古地磁研究中，需要使用退磁器系统 匹兹堡的研究实验室，它将被用于 确定剩磁的方向和强度 岩石、矿物和其他自然磁化样品的磁性。 交变磁场退磁是一种基本技术， 分离出有意义的回波磁信号， 样品已磁性清洁或消磁。的 匹兹堡的一个实验室正致力于确定原始人类的年龄 化石遗址在非洲与磁性地层学方法和 在应用古地磁学解释 全球构造学

This award provides one-half the funds needed for the acquisition of an alternating field demagnetizer system to be installed and operated in the Department of Geology and Planetary Science at the University of Pittsburgh. The University is committed to providing the remaining funds. The demagnetizer system is needed in the Paleomagnetic Research Laboratory at Pittsburgh where it will be used in determining the direction and intensity of the remanent magnetism of rock, mineral and other naturally magnetized samples. Alternating field demagnetization is a basic technique used to isolate the meaningful remanent magnetic signal left after the sample has been magnetically cleaned or demagnetized. The laboratory at Pittsburgh is engaged in dating classic hominid fossil sites in Africa with the magnetostratigraphic method and in the application of paleomagnetism to the interpretation of global tectonics.