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The lunar samples were collected from the regolith, having been brought there by impacts that excavated them from their previous locations. The orientation in which they originally formed is therefore unknown. Thus tests of the reliability of their record depending upon planetary wide consistencies of paleomagnetic directions cannot be used, as they are on earth. Our approach has been to use internal consistencies within samples and demagnetization characteristics, which serve as fingerprints for particular types of remanent magnetization.
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Apollo 17 photograph AS17-134-20425. Courtesy NASA.
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Fuller, M. (2014). Lunar Paleomagnetism: Methods and Preliminaries. In: Our Beautiful Moon and its Mysterious Magnetism. SpringerBriefs in Earth Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00278-1_7
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