Three-dimensional magnetic stripes require slow cooling in fast-spread lower ocean crust.
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DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03831-6
Abstract: Earth's magnetic field is recorded as oceanic crust cools, generating lineated magnetic anomalies that provide the pattern of polarity reversals for the past 160 million years1. In the lower (gabbroic) crust, polarity interval boundaries are… read more here.
Keywords: fast spread; crust; polarity; slow cooling ... See more keywords