On the interpretation of paleomagnetic data on moraines

Some methods of the interpretation and application of paleomagnetic data for the stratigraphic separation and correlation of Neopleistocene moraines, as well as the factors affecting the degree of ordering of magnetic moments of ferromagnetic particles in a moraine, are considered. A refined interpretation of the well-known Ryabushkin-Pevzner model of moraine magnetization is proposed. It is shown that the way of using an occasional coincidence of the direction of long axes of fragments with the direction of magnetization vectors, which is stated in some publications, has no grounds for its application for the stratigraphic separation of moraines related to the Dnieper and Moscow glaciations. However, it cannot be ruled out that this phenomenon may be used for the investigation of processes of glacial lithogenesis.