Analysis of Multi-Component Natural Remanent Magnetization Based on the Thermal Demagnetisation Spectrum

Natural remanent magnetization as a differentiable vector function of temperature is estimated from thermal demagnetization data. Its first derivative is crucial to the interpretation, since the local maxima of its absolute value reveal the temperature intervals where the magnetization is changing most rapidly, but the direction of a partial thermoremanent magnetization may be relatively stable.