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Archaeomagnetic Studies of Baked Clay Bricks in European Part of Russia: New Data

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Abstract—Reconstructing the evolution of the geomagnetic field in the European part of Russia has been an extremely challenging problem due to the still limited data meeting the up-to-date quality criteria. The paper presents the results of archaeomagnetic studies for five groups of fragments of baked clay bricks from architectural monuments of the 18th to 19th centuries in the Yaroslavl region. Paleointensity of the samples was determined by the Triaxe method involving a series of continuous high-temperature measurements. The paleointensity determinations satisfying the up-to-date quality criteria are obtained from 71 samples of 19 fragments of five archaeomagnetic groups. The obtained paleointensity data are compared with the existing data for the European part of Russia and regional reference curves for Western and Eastern Europe.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We are particularly grateful to Y. Gallet, A. Genevey, and M. Le Goff for providing the possibility to carry out the studies in the Institute de Physique du Globe de Paris, France, and their help in the interpretation of the results of paleointensity determination experiments and to P.A. Minaev and G.P. Markov for their help in compiling the archaeomagnetic collection.

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The work was carried under the state research project of the Geological Institute of the Russia Academy of Sciences with partial support from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research under project no. 19-55-18006

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Salnaia, N.V., Jolshin, D.D. Archaeomagnetic Studies of Baked Clay Bricks in European Part of Russia: New Data. Izv., Phys. Solid Earth 57, 395–408 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1069351321030101

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