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The magnetic property most useful in stratigraphic work is the change in the direction of the remanent magnetization of the rocks, caused by reversals in the polarity of the Earth's magnetic field. The direction of the remnant magnetic polarity recorded in the stratigraphic sequence can be used as the basis for the subdivision of the sequence ...
The magnetic field of the Earth, and of other planets that have magnetic fields, is generated by dynamo action in which convection of molten iron in the planetary core generates electric currents which in turn give rise to magnetic fields. [15] In simulations of planetary dynamos, reversals often emerge spontaneously from the underlying dynamics.
The following is a list of geomagnetic reversals, showing the ages of the beginning and end of each period of normal polarity (where the polarity matches the current direction). Source for the last 83 million years: Cande and Kent, 1995. [1] Ages are in million years before present (mya).
Earth Magnetic Field Declination from 1590 to 1990. The Hydrographic Office, later the Naval Oceanographic Office, was responsible for publishing charts defining components the world magnetic field. After the non-magnetic vessel Carnegie blew up in 1909 collection of oceanic magnetic field information capability was lost. By 1951 those charts ...
Magnetic: Brunhes-Matuyama magnetic reversal. 4] Calabrian: 1.8 Vrica Section, Calabria, Italy Magnetic: Approximately 15 ka after the end of magnetic polarity chronozone C2n (Olduvai). Biologic: Immediately above extinction Discoaster brouweri .
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