Seeking a seafloor magnetic signal from the Antarctic circumpolar current
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F. E. M. Lilley,1 A. White,2 G. S. Heinson3 and K. Procko4 1Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia. E-mail: [email protected] 2School of Chemistry, Physics and Earth Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia. E-mail: [email protected] 3School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia. E-mail: [email protected] 4Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia. E-mail: [email protected]
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