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Geomagnetic Reversals and Pleistocene Chronology

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The palaeontology and palaeomagnetic stratigraphy of several Atlantic and Pacific cores has been determined to establish the age relationship of various palaeontological boundaries which have been used to define a Pliocene–Pleistocene boundary in deep sea sediments.

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GLASS, B., ERICSON, D., HEEZEN, B. et al. Geomagnetic Reversals and Pleistocene Chronology. Nature 216, 437–442 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/216437a0

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