Special issue “Recent advances in geo-, paleo- and rock-magnetism”

Abstract

© The Author(s) 2019. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creat iveco mmons .org/licen ses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The special issue of Earth, Planets and Space “Recent Advances in Geo-, Paleoand Rock-Magnetism” was motivated by presentations given in Session S-EM18 “General Contributions in Geomagnetism, Paleomagnetism, and Rock magnetism” held during the Japan Geoscience Union–American Geophysical Union (JpGU– AGU) 2017 Joint Meeting (20–25 May in Chiba, Japan). Contributions span the broad range of topical developments in Earth magnetism including the disciplines of archeomagnetism, paleomagnetism, paleointensity, rock magnetism, crustal magnetism and biogeomagnetism. In addition, several contributions present advances in methods of analysis. These areas are briefly introduced below with an emphasis on the advances represented, current community debates and the motivation the new results provide for further study.