paleointensity
nounEtymology From paleo- + intensity.
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Geography, Geology, Natural sciences The intensity of geomagnetism at a given location at a particular time in the geologic past
- Paleointensity cannot be predicted by theory or from numerical simulation, since the mechanisms involved in the geodynamo are not sufficiently constrained.2007, Joseph S. Stoner, Guillaume St-Onge, “Magnetic Stratigraphy in Paleooceanography”, in Proxies in Late Cenozoic Paleoceanography, →ISBN, page 123: