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Investigating the Earth’s magnetic field provides a unique window into the history of Earth’s outer core, where the field is generated. Rocks gain a magnetization that is in the direction of and proportional to the Earth’s magnetic field at the time of their formation, such as w…

The trachytic Campanian Ignimbrite was emplaced at 39.8 ka near Naples, Italy, in the largest European eruption of the past 200 ka. Many factors, including the far-reaching extent of deposits, with co-ignimbrite fallout found as far away as Russia, indicate emplacement via a dil…