A long-term octupolar component in the geomagnetic field? (0-200 million years B.P.)

Geophysical Monograph Series

Volumn 145, Issue , 2004, Pages 59-74

  Courtillot, Vincent ^a   Besse, Jean ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

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EID: 33845586124     PISSN: 00658448     EISSN: 23288779     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1029/145GM05     Document Type: Chapter

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