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James A. Van Allen lab journal, September 1959-January 1961

Page 103

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75 degrees [W.?] meridian approximately!} The discontinuity (or by virtue of the geometric similarity to the lower edge of the intense portion of our inner zone) is tentatively attributed to a ring current flowing in an atmospheric layer which is made exceptionally conductive by ionization by trapped particles in the inner zone. The question of the thinness of the layer (<~100 km) is under study by E. Ray.
 
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