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Lineations in the Magnetic Quiet Zone of the North-west Atlantic

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A MAGNETIC and seismic reflection survey in the Magnetic Quiet Zone shows that basement topography and magnetic anomalies are lineated parallel to the boundary of the quiet zone. Two narrow zones of reversed polarity are identified. The results imply that the zone boundary is an isochron separating a period of seafloor spreading in which rapid geomagnetic reversals occurred from a period in which few reversals occurred.

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  1. Atlantic Geoscience Centre, Geological Survey of Canada, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada

    D. L. BARRETT & C. E. KEEN

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BARRETT, D., KEEN, C. Lineations in the Magnetic Quiet Zone of the North-west Atlantic. Nature 253, 423–425 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1038/253423a0

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