paleomagnetician

paleomagnetician

English

Etymology

paleomagnetic +‎ -ian

Noun

paleomagnetician (plural paleomagneticians)

1. A specialist in the field of paleomagnetism
   • 1997 May 23, Richard A. Kerr, “Marine Geology: New Way to Hit the Hot Spot Hints at a Complex Pacific”, in Science‎, volume 276, number 5316, DOI:10.1126/science.276.5316.1198:

     I would have expected that there would be more very bright spots," says paleomagnetician Gary Acton of Texas A&M University.

   • 1997 September 12, Richard A. Kerr, “EARTH SCIENCE: More Signs of a Far-Traveled West”, in Science‎, volume 277, number 5332, DOI:10.1126/science.277.5332.1608:

     Still, the study, reported on page 1642 by paleontologist Peter Ward of the University of Washington in Seattle, paleomagnetician Joseph Kirschvink of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, and their colleagues, "could influence the fence sitters," says geologist Darrel Cowan of the University of Washington, who has written on possible geologic tests of the so-called Baja-British Columbia hypothesis.

   • 2000 January 21, Richard A. Kerr, “GEOPHYSICS:Did the Dinosaurs Live on a Topsy-Turvy Earth?”, in Science‎, volume 287, number 5452, DOI:10.1126/science.287.5452.406, pages 406-407:

     Virtually every test we've done in the past 5 years suggests true polar wander has been overestimated," says paleomagnetician John Tarduno of the University of Rochester, New York.

   • 2000 March 10, Richard A. Kerr, “PALEOCLIMATE: An Appealing Snowball Earth That's Still Hard to Swallow”, in Science‎, volume 287, number 5459, DOI:10.1126/science.287.5459.1734, pages 1734-1736:

     In last August's Geological Society of America Bulletin, geologists Linda Sohl and Nicholas Christie-Blick (a snowball critic) of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York, and paleomagnetician Dennis Kent of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, published a paper on the Neoproterozoic Elatina Formation glacial deposit in Australia.