English

Alternative forms

• palaeomagnetism

Noun

paleomagnetism ‎(usually uncountable, plural paleomagnetisms)

1. (geology) The study of the strength and direction of the Earth's magnetic field as it has changed over geologic time.
   • 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 139:

     The crucial work on palaeomagnetism was already under way less than ten years after Holmes's first edition.

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Related terms

• paleomagnetic
• paleomagnetics