MAGNETIC SHIELDING AND CAMBRIAN EXPLOSION. “The Phanerozoic has been the era of plate tectonics. Lithosphere motions documented by paleomagnetism suggest Earth’s dipole magnetic field may have developed at ~600 Ma. The Cambrian explosion in which most modern phyla evolved may have required its shielding against radiation.”
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