Figure F11. Miocene to Holocene geomagnetic polarity timescale (GPTS). In the polarity column, black = normal polarity and white = reversed polarity. Absolute ages, geologic periods, and magnetic chron terminology are shown at left. The figure is based on the Berggren et al. (1995) and Cande and Kent (1995) GPTS.
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