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The 66 pages that link to Paleomagnetism, each with the reason it gives.

• Plate tectonicsRelated: Magnetic evidence on the seafloor proved spreading and clinched the theory in the 1960s.

• Seafloor spreadingRelated: The method that reads the magnetization frozen into newly formed oceanic basalt.

• PangaeaRelated: Paleomagnetic data from the 1950s proved continents had occupied different latitudes.

• Continental driftRelated: Runcorn's 1950s results reopened the drift question by showing apparent polar wander.

• Mid-Atlantic RidgeRelated: Vine and Matthews used these stripes on the ridge flanks to confirm spreading in 1963.

• Continental collisionRelated: Magnetic records help establish how continents approached before collision.

• PaleogeographyRelated: Magnetic directions in dated rocks help estimate past continental positions and latitudes.

• Deccan TrapsRelated: Magnetic signatures in successive flows help establish their sequence and timing.

• Alfred WegenerRelated: Polar-wander paths from different continents matched Wegener's reconstructions, converting skeptics in the 1950s.

• Snowball EarthRelated: Low-latitude magnetic signatures in glacial rocks support tropical ice, though their interpretation is debated.

• African PlateRelated: Magnetic stripes in ocean crust reveal spreading rates and past plate configurations.

• Indian PlateRelated: Magnetic records in Indian rocks help estimate the plate’s ancient latitude and travel.

• Olduvai GorgeRelated: Magnetic reversals provide an independent check on the age sequence of Olduvai deposits.

• Earth's magnetic fieldRelated: Magnetic minerals preserve past field directions and polarity.

• RodiniaRelated: Magnetic directions in ancient rocks help reconstruct Rodinia’s continental arrangement.

• MagnetometerRelated: Magnetic measurements reveal past field directions and support reconstructions of plate motion.

• MagnetostratigraphyNarrower topic: Magnetostratigraphy applies paleomagnetic measurements to stratigraphic dating and correlation.

• Tectonic plateRelated: Magnetic patterns on the ocean floor supplied evidence for spreading plates.

• Geomagnetic reversalNarrower topic: Paleomagnetic measurements reveal past field directions and reversal timing.

• Harry HessRelated: Magnetic records in ocean crust later provided a way to test seafloor spreading.

• Central Atlantic Magmatic ProvinceRelated: Magnetic polarity patterns help correlate CAMP sequences across separated regions.

• GeodynamoRelated: Its records reveal past field directions and strengths, including changes in dynamo behavior.

• Peking ManRelated: Magnetic evidence from Zhoukoudian sediments contributes to dating its deposits.

• Sunda PlateRelated: Rock records help test reconstructions of the plate’s geological history.

• AvaloniaRelated: Rock magnetism helps estimate Avalonia’s Paleozoic latitude and movement.

• Ocean drillingRelated: Magnetic reversals in cores help date seafloor formation and sediment sequences.

• Superconducting quantum interference deviceRelated: SQUID instruments can measure weak remanent magnetization in geological samples.

• Vine–Matthews–Morley hypothesisNarrower topic: The hypothesis turned paleomagnetism from a specialist tool into geology's master chronometer.

• Deep Sea Drilling ProjectRelated: Magnetic signals in cores helped relate ocean-floor records to geomagnetic reversals.

• Dmanisi homininsRelated: Magnetic reversals in the site’s deposits help constrain their age.

• Earth's outer coreNarrower topic: Ancient magnetic records constrain how long the outer-core geodynamo has operated.

• Koobi ForaRelated: Magnetic reversals provide an independent framework for dating its sediment sequence.

• ZhoukoudianRelated: Magnetic reversals help constrain the age of Zhoukoudian deposits.

• PannotiaRelated: Paleomagnetic data can constrain where proposed Pannotian continents lay.

• ParanthropusRelated: Magnetic reversals help establish ages for fossil-bearing African deposits.

• Variscan orogenyRelated: It helps test reconstructions of the terranes that converged during Variscan assembly.

• Middle AwashRelated: Magnetic reversals help correlate and date Middle Awash sediment sequences.

• Rheic OceanRelated: Rock magnetism constrains the movement of continents bordering the vanished ocean.

• Central Asian Orogenic BeltRelated: Paleomagnetic data test where terranes lay before their accretion to Asia.

• Columbia (supercontinent)Related: Ancient magnetic directions constrain the past positions and rotations of Columbia's constituent landmasses.

• Huronian glaciationRelated: Magnetic measurements help constrain the latitudes of ancient glacial deposits.

• Oxide mineralRelated: Magnetite and other iron oxides can preserve records of ancient magnetic directions.

• Sturtian glaciationRelated: Magnetic measurements help test whether glacial deposits formed at low latitudes.

• Thermoremanent magnetizationNarrower topic: Thermoremanent magnetization is a principal record used to reconstruct ancient field directions.

• KenorlandRelated: It can constrain past latitudes and rotations of cratons used to test Kenorland reconstructions.

• Patrick BlackettRelated: Blackett’s geomagnetic work helped stimulate renewed research into magnetic records in rocks.

• Ardipithecus kadabbaRelated: Magnetic signatures in the deposits help correlate and date the fossil-bearing sequence.

• John Tuzo WilsonRelated: Magnetic patterns in ocean crust independently supported the moving-plate framework Wilson helped develop.

• Lantian ManRelated: Magnetic reversals in the fossil-bearing sediments help establish their age.

• Marinoan glaciationRelated: Paleomagnetic measurements help establish that some Marinoan deposits formed at low latitudes.