Paleomagnetic Standards Measurements

Updated 2/19/20

Paleomagnetic standards were provided by Lisa Tauxe to confirm instrument measurements are correct. The standards were prepared specifically for the SRM although they can be used in the other instruments as well. These standards were prepared and measured at S10 in California. Standards are kept in a cardboard box (figure 1) and stored in the Pmag lab in the smaller MU metal shielding chamber (figure 2).

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Open the .dsc file with a text editor. Under the Header <MULTI>, scroll to the far right. You are looking for the values inclination_w_bkgrd_w_drift, declination_w_bkgrd_w_drift, and intensity_w_bkgrd_w_drift. These are your background and drift corrected values that you can compare to the listed values of the standards. Record the values in the laboratory notebook.

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