We examine the behavior of natural basaltic and trachytic samples during paleointensity experiments on both the original and laboratory‐acquired thermal remanences and characterize the samples using proxies for domain state including curvature (
The objective of this comment is to correct two sets of statements in Litwin et al. (2022,
- NSF-PAR ID:
- 10443862
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- DOI PREFIX: 10.1029
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- Journal Name:
- Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface
- Volume:
- 127
- Issue:
- 10
- ISSN:
- 2169-9003
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- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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