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Critics believe untold other drillings have gone unreported in volcanic landscapes across the West since paleomagnetic studies emerged as an important scientific endeavor in the 1950s.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2021

Traditional paleomagnetic measurements using superconducting sensors had found faint fields preserved in the zircons, a clue that Earth had a magnetic field half a billion years earlier than expected.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 22, 2020

“Some of the leading researchers in the paleomagnetic community are very skeptical on it,” she says.

From Scientific American • Feb. 15, 2019

When the rock cools and solidifies, this alignment is frozen into place, creating a permanent paleomagnetic record that includes magnetic inclination related to global latitude, and declination related to magnetic north.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

What evidence from paleomagnetic studies provided support for continental drift?

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015