of deep marine stratigraphy where it allowed the validation of the Vine-Matthews-Morley hypothesis related to the theory of plate tectonics.

Technique

When measurable magnetic properties of rocks vary stratigraphically they may be the basis for related but different kinds of stratigraphic units known collectively as magnetostratigraphic units (magnetozones). The magnetic property most useful in stratigraphic work is the change in

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