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palaeomagnetism

palaeomagnetism is the alternative spelling of paleomagnetism.

Meaning of paleomagnetism

Noun

paleomagnetism (usually uncountable, plural paleomagnetisms)

  1. (usually) The study of the strength and direction of the Earth's magnetic field as it has changed over geologic time.
    • The crucial work on palaeomagnetism was already under way less than ten years after Holmes's first edition.2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 139

Origin of palaeomagnetism

From palaeo- + magnetism.

Questions about palaeomagnetism

What is palaeomagnetism the alternative spelling of?
Palaeomagnetism is the alternative spelling of paleomagnetism.

Words near palaeomagnetism in the dictionary

  1. palaeolongitude
  2. palaeolongitudes
  3. palaeolongitudinal
  4. palaeomagnetic
  5. palaeomagnetically
  6. palaeomagnetism
  7. palaeomagnetist
  8. palaeomagnetists
  9. palaeomammalian
  10. palaeomammalogy
  11. palaeomargin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: palaeomagnetism (page history and authors); paleomagnetism (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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