Isolation of paleofield information from the natural remanent magnetization of marine sediments using stratigraphic networks

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Characteristics of the geomagnetic paleofield over the last 5 myrs in space and time were largely derived from marine magnetostratigraphic data. The acquisition of natural remanent magnetization in marine sediments is strongly influenced by a variety of factors other than the Earth`s field. The proposed work aims at isolating the geomagnetic information by means of stratigraphic networks which will be derived from multipara- meter data sets and newly adopted mathematical techniques to define a common high resolution timescale for a large number of regionally constraint marine paleomagnetic records.By modeling paleofield and non-field influences together as parametric filters of the paleomagnetic records, the strati- graphic network should allow to identify at the same time the filter parameters and the paleofield signal.The methods will be developed and tested on a subset of gravity cores recovered from an area north and east of the Canary Islands (EU project CANIGO). In addition to a high resolution paleofield record, the project should yield detailed insight into the remanent magnetization acquisition in marine sedimentary deposits.