paleointensity

English

Alternative forms

• palaeointensity

Etymology

From paleo- +‎ intensity.

Noun

paleointensity (plural paleointensities)

1. (geology) The intensity of geomagnetism at a given location at a particular time in the geologic past
   • 2007, Joseph S. Stoner, Guillaume St-Onge, “Magnetic Stratigraphy in Paleooceanography”, in Proxies in Late Cenozoic Paleoceanography‎^[1], →ISBN, page 123:

     Paleointensity cannot be predicted by theory or from numerical simulation, since the mechanisms involved in the geodynamo are not sufficiently constrained.