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A record of an excursion of the Earth’s magnetic field was found in a ∼14.3 Myr old lava sequence of the shield basalts from Gran Canaria (Canary Islands). The thermal and alternating field demagnetization of the samples from 14 subsequent lava flows revealed mainly single component magnetizations and sometimes minor viscous overprints. Four consecutive flows showed intermediate paleodirections which...