The intensity of the Earth's magnetic field over the past 160 million years

Nature

Volumn 394, Issue 6696, 1998, Pages 878-881

  Juarez M T ^a   Tauxe, L ^b   Gee, J S ^b   Pick, T ^c  

^a Paleomagnetic Laboratory Utrecht   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Europ Topic Ctr Cat Data Sources   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETIC INTENSITY;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHY; GRAVITY; MAGNETIC FIELD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0032572751     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/29746     Document Type: Article

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