Alan Cox

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Alan Cox

American geophysicist

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Simultaneously, Alan Cox and several other American geophysicists documented evidence that Earth’s magnetic field had reversed in the past: the north magnetic pole had been the south magnetic pole about 700,000 years ago, and there were reasons to believe older reversals existed. Also at this time,…
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Simultaneously, Alan Cox and several other American geophysicists documented evidence that Earth’s magnetic field had reversed in the past: the north magnetic pole had been the south magnetic pole about 700,000 years ago, and there were reasons to believe older reversals existed. Also at this time,…
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