AUTHOR=Monster Marilyn W. L. , de Groot Lennart V. , Dekkers Mark J. TITLE=MSP-Tool: A VBA-Based Software Tool for the Analysis of Multispecimen Paleointensity Data JOURNAL=Frontiers in Earth Science VOLUME=3 YEAR=2015 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/earth-science/articles/10.3389/feart.2015.00086 DOI=10.3389/feart.2015.00086 ISSN=2296-6463 ABSTRACT=
The multispecimen protocol (MSP) is a method to estimate the Earth's magnetic field's past strength from volcanic rocks or archeological materials. By reducing the amount of heating steps and aligning the specimens parallel to the applied field, thermochemical alteration and multi-domain effects are minimized. We present a new software tool, written for Microsoft Excel 2010 in Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), that evaluates paleointensity data acquired using this protocol. In addition to the three ratios (standard, fraction-corrected, and domain-state-corrected) calculated following Dekkers and Böhnel (