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Paleomagnetism.org 2 - Sun Compass Shadow to Azimuth

When magnetic compasses do not define properly the azimuth of a core (a strongly magnetized rock, being too close to the magnetic poles...) paleomagnetists use a sun compass. A sun compass is a sun-clock projected over a gnomon. Upload a file and calculate your core azimuths! Data file must contain commas, spaces or tabulation delimited Name, Date (yyyy:mm:dd:hr:min), Δu*, Site Latitude, Site Longitude, Shadow angle. Δu is the time to SUBSTRACT from local time for Universal time. An example input file is here.