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THEORETICAL reasons exist for believing that the auroral isochasms should be projections of circles in the equatorial plane outside the Earth on to its surface along the geomagnetic lines of force1.
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HULTQVIST, B. Auroral Isochasms. Nature 183, 1478–1479 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/1831478a0
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