Statistical assessment of the preferred longitudinal bands for recent geomagnetic reversal records
- 23 October 1992
- journal article
- Published by American Geophysical Union (AGU) in Geophysical Research Letters
- Vol. 19 (20) , 2003-2006
- https://doi.org/10.1029/92gl02164
Abstract
Records of recent polarity reversals recorded in sediments show a preponderance of transitional VGP's situated in the longitudinal sector over the Americas and, to a lesser extent, over its antipode. A series of tests based on the methods of circular statistics show that this distribution is not consistent with the statistical fluctuations of a random probability distribution. The longitudinal bias in the distribution, therefore, requires a physical explanation.This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
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