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01413cam a22002417a 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| ISBN |
9781615190317 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| ISBN |
9781615191321 |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
538.72 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME |
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| Personal name |
Turner, Gillian M |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
North Pole, South Pole : the epic quest to solve the great mystery of Earth's magnetism / |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
first North American edition. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication |
New York, NY : |
| Name of publisher |
The Experiment, |
| Year of publication |
2011 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Number of Pages |
468 pages : |
| Other physical details |
illustrations ; |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
Originally published: Wellington, N.Z. : Awa Press, 2010 |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
The mystery of magnetism -- Voyages of discovery -- Magnus Magnes -- The wandering compass needle -- Measuring the force -- Of forces and fields -- The third element -- The magnetic crusade -- The core of the matter -- Reading the rocks -- Poles flipped, continents adrift -- The story on the seafloor -- Unraveling the record -- In search of a solution -- The geodynamo |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
Discusses the issues of geomagnetism, including why the Earth's magnetic north differs from its geographic north, how animals use geomagnetism for migration purposes, and the source of the magnetic field |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
Geomagnetism -- History |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
Geophysics -- History |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
Geophysicists -- History |
| 856 42 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier |
http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1106/2010934222-b.html |
| 856 42 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier |
http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1106/2010934222-d.html |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Koha item type |
Electronic Books |
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