Assessing the fidelity of palaeomagnetic records of geomagnetic reversal

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 358, Issue 1768, 2000, Pages 1049-1064

  Clement, Bradford M ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Geomagnetic polarity reversals; Palaeomagnetism; Polarity transitions; Secular variation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346112644     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2000.0573     Document Type: Article

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