Motonori Matuyama
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1884 – 1958
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Who was Motonori Matuyama?
Motonori Matuyama was a Japanese geophysicist who was the first to surmise that the Earth's magnetic field had undergone reversals in the past. The era of reversed polarity preceding the current Brunhes era of normal polarity is called the Matuyama reversed chron and the boundary between them is called the Brunhes–Matuyama reversal.
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- Born
- 1884
Ōita Prefecture - Nationality
- Japan
- Education
- Kyoto University
- Died
- 1958
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on July 23, 2013
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