PALEOMAGNETISM LABORATORY

The Paleomagnetism Laboratory, otherwise known as the chalet, was completed in 1985 and is located on the UC Santa Cruz campus in a remote building specially constructed with non-magnetic materials and isolated from major sources of man-made magnetic noise. Inside this building, a magnetically shielded room houses a state-of-the-art superconducting magnetometer, a sensitive spinner magnetometer, thermal and alternating field demagnetizaters, and paleointensity equipment. A second lab devoted to the study of rock and mineral magnetic properties is housed in the Earth and Marine Sciences Building. It contains another spinner magnetometer, devices for measuring Curie temperatures, magnetic susceptibility and its anisotropy, hysteresis loops, and computer facilities for data analysis and graphics.

For more information, please see http://www.es.ucsc.edu/~paleomag