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"textContent": "The Egersund dike system in Norway formed more than 600 million years ago, during the Ediacaran period. In new work, researchers drilled rock samples from the dike seen here to learn more about the history of Earth’s magnetic field. Credit: Yi Xue, CC BY 3.0",
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