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Micromagnetic domain structures and thermal stability of magnetite and iron as a function of grain size, shape and temperature (NERC grant NE/J020966/1)

The vast majority of palaeomagnetic recordings held in rock and meteorites are contained in small inhomogeneously magnetised particles that have a single-vortex (SV) domain state. The reliability and fidelity of the magnetic recording in these particles can only be determined using a numerical micromagnetic approach. This data set provides the first comprehensive examination of domain state as a function of grain size, grain shape and temperature for both magnetite and iron. The results show that SV domain states are highly stable, and in some cases more stable than their ‘ideal’ uniformly magnetized counterparts. With the data sets in this archive it is possible to determine the magnetic recording and stability characteristics of assemblies of grains that can be matched to a wide variety of grain distributions found in terrestrial rocks and meteorites.
 
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. Micromagnetic domain structures and thermal stability of magnetite and iron as a function of grain size, shape and temperature (NERC grant NE/J020966/1). https://metadata.bgs.ac.uk/geonetwork/srv/api/records/5871fa10-d278-5986-e054-002128a47908

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Date ( Creation )
2017
Identifier
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607193

  Point of contact

University of Edinburgh - Professor Wyn Williams (School of Geosciences )  
Grant Institute, The King's Buildings, James Hutton Road Edinburgh EH9 3FE

Maintenance and update frequency
notApplicable notApplicable
GEMET - INSPIRE themes
  • Geology
BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences
  • Magnetite , Iron , Palaeomagnetism
Keywords
  • NERC_DDC
Access constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Use constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused.
Other constraints
The dataset is made available to external clients under BGS Digital Data Licence terms and conditions. Revert to the IPR Section (iprdigital@bgs.ac.uk ) if further advice is required with regard to permitted usage.
Metadata language
English English
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information

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OnLine resource
https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1501801  
Hierarchy level
nonGeographicDataset Non geographic dataset
Other
non geographic dataset

Conformance result

Date ( Publication )
2011
Explanation
See the referenced specification
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false

Conformance result

Date ( Publication )
2010-12-08
Explanation
See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF
Pass
false
Statement
The Micromagnetic models were computed using ‘MERRILL’ which is freely available for a variety of platforms (linux, osx, windows) and can be downloaded from https://bitbucket.org/wynwilliams/merrill. MERRILL is a script driven micromagentic solver, and full documentation is provided in the documentation folder of the Bitbucket repository.

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File identifier
5871fa10-d278-5986-e054-002128a47908   XML
Metadata language
English English
Hierarchy level
nonGeographicDataset Non geographic dataset
Hierarchy level name
non geographic dataset
Date stamp
2021-01-25
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version
2.3

  Point of contact

British Geological Survey  
Environmental Science Centre,Keyworth NOTTINGHAM NOTTINGHAMSHIRE NG12 5GG United Kingdom

  +44 115 936 3100  
Dataset URI
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607193
 
 

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