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The author has collected previously published results of investigations of rocks which have been baked by other igneous rocks. The relationship between the polarity of natural magnetization of igneous rocks and that of rocks which they have heated, suggests that reversals of the polarity of the Earth's magnetic field have taken place many times in the past few hundred million years.
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R. L. Wilson (1962) studied this question.
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