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WE have delayed comment on F. B. Daniels's letter in Nature1 hoping that we would obtain further information relevant to his suggestion that the fluctuations of about 6 sec. period in the geomagnetic field may be due either to microseisms or microbaroms. Although the general object of our main investigation has been to get a clear idea of the cause and origin of the geomagnetic fluctuations in a wide frequency-range, the main emphasis has been in the normal ‘daytime’ pulsations continues of 10–40 sec. period. The particular record referred to by Dr. Daniels2 was taken during a magnetic storm, when geomagnetic fluctuations cover a range of periods from fractions of a second up to many minutes.
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DUFFUS, H., SHAND, J. & WRIGHT, C. Possible Causes of Geomagnetic Fluctuations having a 6-Sec. Period. Nature 183, 1479–1480 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/1831479a0
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