“Bangui anomaly” is the name given to one of the Earth's largest crustal magnetic anomalies and the largest over the African continent. It covers two‐thirds of the Central African Republic and the name derives from the capital city Bangui that is near the center of this feature. From surface magnetic survey data, Godivier and Le Donche (1962) were the first to describe this anomaly. Subsequently high‐altitude world magnetic surveying (see Aeromagnetic surveying ) by the US Naval Oceanographic Office (Project Magnet) recorded a greater than 1000 nT dipolar, peak‐to‐trough anomaly with the major portion being negative (Figure B5). Satellite observations (Cosmos 49) were first reported in 1964 (Benkova et al., 1973); these revealed a –40nT anomaly at 350 km altitude. Subsequently the higher altitude (417–499 km) Polar Orbiting Geomagnetic Observatory (POGO) satellites data recorded peak‐to‐trough anomalies of 20 nT. These data were added to Cosmos 49 measurements by Regan et al. (1973)...
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Taylor, P.T. (2007). Bangui Anomaly. In: Gubbins, D., Herrero-Bervera, E. (eds) Encyclopedia of Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4423-6_13
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