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Table 5 Summary of successful experiments run for this study

From: Investigating the utility of a high-temperature Thellier-style paleointensity experimental protocol

 

Passes (rate) (%)

Ntot

Expected PI estimate (µT)

Mean PI estimate (µT ± 1σ)

|K’|

DRAT (%)

Nstep

(mean ± 1σ)

(range)

200CT

17 (74)

25

21.0

31.7 ± 15

0.177 ± 0.12

0.007–0.451

5.2 ± 1.9

9 ± 1

300CT

11 (69)

16

19.6

28.4 ± 16

0.244 ± 0.15

0.056–0.501

4.8 ± 2.6

9 ± 2

400CT

13 (72)

18

21.8

25.8 ± 15

0.255 ± 0.14

0.001–0.517

4.3 ± 2.5

8 ± 2

500CT

5 (29)

17

20.9

21.2 ± 11

0.252 ± 0.19

0.044–0.469

4.8 ± 1.8

9 ± 1

HiTeCT

2 (11)

19

19.3

21.7 ± 0.9

0.627 ± 0.01

0.619–0.636

7.8 ± 2.5

11 ± 1

  1. Ntot is the total number of specimens run, PI means paleointensity, |K’| is a measure of curvature of the points selected on an Arai plot, and Nstep is the mean number of Arai plot data points selected