"Paleomagnetism: Continents and Oceans is a synthesis and analysis of global paleomagnetic data for the major crustal blocks over the past 1000 million years. The volume will be of interest to geologists, geophysicists, and oceanographers and can be used as the basis for a lecture course on paleomagnetism. To make the text as accessible as possible to students, the mathematics has been kept to a minimum. It can be considered as a companion volume to The Magnetic Field of the Earth published in this series in 1996."--BOOK JACKET.