curie point

curie point
GLOSSARY OF VOLCANIC TERMS
The temperature at which a body loses (by heating) or preserves (by cooling) its permanent magnetization. As rocks cool, the electromagnetic field aligns magnetic minerals in the magma, and their orientation is preserved as the rocks cool below the Curie point.

Glossary of volcanic terms. - University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. . 2001.

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