• DocumentCode
    2010728
  • Title

    Evidence for an intense aurora recorded in antiquity

  • Author

    Peratt

  • Author_Institution
    Los Alamos Nat. Lab., NM, USA
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    5-5 June 2003
  • Firstpage
    143
  • Abstract
    Summary form only given, as follows. Based on the compilation and analysis of the order of 50,000 digitally recorded petroglyphs, we have identified several dozen general categories of instabilities of a highly nonlinear plasma column generally associated with multi-megaampere Z-pinches. This suggests that prehistoric man recorded the occurrence of an intense and long-lasting aurora.
  • Keywords
    Z pinch; aurora; plasma instability; plasma nonlinear processes; antiquity; digitally recorded petroglyphs; highly nonlinear plasma column; instabilities; intense aurora; long-lasting aurora; multi-megaampere Z-pinches; Australia; Continents; Electron beams; Humans; Laboratories; Natural languages; Plasmas; Rivers; Surface morphology;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Plasma Science, 2003. ICOPS 2003. IEEE Conference Record - Abstracts. The 30th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Jeju, South Korea
  • ISSN
    0730-9244
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7911-X
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/PLASMA.2003.1228570
  • Filename
    1228570