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The intensity of the Earth's magnetic field over the past 160 million years (Dataset)
Paleomagnetic, rock magnetic, or geomagnetic data found in the MagIC data repository from a paper titled: The intensity of the Earth's magnetic field over the past 160 million years
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- Award ID(s):
- 2126298
- PAR ID:
- 10558640
- Publisher / Repository:
- Magnetics Information Consortium (MagIC)
- Date Published:
- Subject(s) / Keyword(s):
- Igneous Extrusive Submarine Volcanic Pillow Chilled Margin Basalt 6400000 156500000 Years BP
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Location:
- (Latitude:-11; Longitude:71.0); (Latitude:35; Longitude:33.0); (East Bound Longitude:-84; North Bound Latitude:4; South Bound Latitude:1; West Bound Longitude:157.0); (East Bound Longitude:-5; North Bound Latitude:64; South Bound Latitude:-27; West Bound Longitude:-31); (Latitude:-11.0; Longitude:71.0); (Latitude:-11.0; Longitude:71.0); (Latitude:-26.0; Longitude:-11); (Latitude:-27.0; Longitude:-5); (Latitude:-29.0; Longitude:3.0); (Latitude:1.0; Longitude:-84); (Latitude:12.5; Longitude:-91); (Latitude:16.0; Longitude:-60); (Latitude:18.0; Longitude:133.0); (Latitude:23.0; Longitude:-46); (Latitude:23.0; Longitude:-44); (Latitude:25.0; Longitude:-68); (Latitude:25.0; Longitude:-68); (Latitude:28.0; Longitude:-75); (Latitude:29.0; Longitude:-118); (Latitude:33.0; Longitude:-42); (Latitude:34.0; Longitude:-44); (Latitude:35.0; Longitude:-41); (Latitude:35.0; Longitude:33.0); (Latitude:37.0; Longitude:-35); (Latitude:39.0; Longitude:-35); (Latitude:4.0; Longitude:157.0); (Latitude:46.0; Longitude:-30); (Latitude:64.0; Longitude:-31); (Latitude:7.0; Longitude:165.0)
- Right(s):
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
- Institution:
- Paleomagnetic Lab Scripps Institution Of Oceanography, UCSD, USA
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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