A marine magnetic anomaly is the difference between the intensity of the magnetic field measured at sea and the intensity of a reference model of the Earth’s main field at the same place: it is positive above crust magnetized in the direction of the present field, and negative above crust magnetized in the opposite direction. A polarity chron is an interval of time during which the field kept one polarity, named by a number and the letter n (normal, as today) or r (reversed). The geomagnetic polarity timescale is the sequence of polarity chrons with the ages of their boundaries.
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什么是 Marine magnetic anomaly; polarity chron; polarity timescale?
又称: marine magnetic anomaly · polarity chron · geomagnetic polarity timescale