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magnetostratigraphy  

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  • The magnetostratigraphy is a stratigraphy based on the study of the retention by rocks of a magnetic imprint acquired in the geomagnetic field that existed at the time the rocks were formed and of polarity reversals of the magnetic field from a chronological standpoint. (Adapted from: Moureau M. & Brace G. (2000). Comprehensive Dictionary of Earth Science - Dictionnaire des Sciences de la Terre. Paris, Technip.)

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  • magnetic stratigraphy
  • palaeomagnetic stratigraphy
  • paleomagnetic stratigraphy

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