R: Pole Positions of New Caledonian Laterites

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## Pole Positions of New Caledonian Laterites

### Description

The `polar` data frame has 50 rows and 2 columns.

The data are the pole positions from a paleomagnetic study of New Caledonian laterites.

### Usage

    polar

### Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

`lat`

  The latitude (in degrees) of the pole position. Note that all latitudes are negative as the axis is taken to be in the lower hemisphere.

`long`

  The longitude (in degrees) of the pole position.

### Source

The data were obtained from

Fisher, N.I., Lewis, T. and Embleton, B.J.J. (1987) Statistical Analysis of Spherical Data. Cambridge University Press.

### References

Davison, A.C. and Hinkley, D.V. (1997) Bootstrap Methods and Their Application. Cambridge University Press.

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