Tinted detail of a photo: Weathered limestone cliff built of hundreds of thin stacked layers like a pile of pancakes, grey at the top and orange-brown below, with a small dark pool in a hollow.
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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.

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 …[Read More]