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Climate: Past, Present & Future

Stephanie Scheidt

I am a postdoc at the Institute of Geology and Mineralogy at the University of Cologne and the Laboratory Manager of the Rock and Palaeomagnetic Laboratory. My research focusses mainly on palaeomagnetism and environmagnetics of terrestrial sedimentary sequences. Recently I am involved in different Project to solve geochronological issues.

What’s my age again? Comparing dating methods in loess

, and February 9, 2021
What’s my age again? Comparing dating methods in loess

As you have learned from our previous posts, loess is a widespread terrestrial sediment, known to be an important archive for the changes of past environmental and climatic conditions. In order to use loess as a proxy, we first need to investigate the age of the sediments. In loess, different dating methods can be used, such as luminescence dating, radiocarbon dating, magnetic stratigraphy, and or ...[Read More]

Magnetic minerals: storytellers of environmental and climatic conditions

July 9, 2019
Magnetic minerals: storytellers of environmental and climatic conditions

Name of proxy Environmental Magnetism (also known as enviromagnetics) Type of record Environment and climate proxy Paleoenvironment Sedimentary environments (for the most part) Period of time investigated Present times to millions of years (depending on the preservation conditions) How does it work? Magnetism is a physical property that results from the behaviour of elementary particles in any sub ...[Read More]