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• Introduction

• Geomagnetic field
• Paleomagnetic field

• Notes to paleomag basics

• Line fitting

• Errors in y only
• Errors in both y and x
• Solution of York (1966)

• Circle fitting

• Classical Kasa method
• Improved Taubin method

• Principal component analysis
• Fisher distribution
• Bingham distribution
• Stream function
• Eccentric dipole

• Gauss coefficients and dipole offset
• Method of Taylor expansion

• Schmidt's formulas

• Formulas of Hurwitz (1960)

• Notes to rock mag basics

• Conversion of units
• Magnetism of material

• Magnetic moment of atoms
• Diamagnetism and paramagnetism
• Ferromagnetism

• Thermoremanent magnetization of SD grains

• Magnetic hysteresis of a SD grain
• Thermal activation theory of SD grains
• Neel diagram

• Anhysteretic remanent magnetization of SD grains

• Preisach diagram
• Thermal activation model

• Old paleomag programs

• Paleodirections

• Sample-level: pdemag
• Site-level: pdirec
• Group-level: pstat & psvar

• Thellier results
• Statistical tests

• Test of a common mean: tmean
• Test of a common mean direction: tmeandir
• Test of distribution: histo & histo2

• Miscellanies

• Calculator for paleomagnetism: pcalc
• Sun compass orientation: sunpmag
• Main field elements: igrf
• Circle fitting: pcirc

• Publication list
• Personal history

• Curriculum vitae

• Basics of Geophysics: Problems and Answers (Japanese only)