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GEOMAGNETIC POLARITY TIMESCALE (GPTS)
A geological timescale based on geomagnetic polarity reversals, calibrated by absolute-age dating of reversals (see calibrated-age dating) (see Figure). The geomagnetic polarity timescale, or magnetostratigraphic timescale, is principally used where a distinctive set of reversals in a ...
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