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Magnetic anomaly detector
A magnetic anomaly detector (MAD) is a piece of equipment that is used to detect minute variations in the Earth's magnetic field. The term refers specifically to magnetometers used either by military forces to detect submarines—such a mass of ferromagnetic material disturbs the magnetic field and can be detected—or to a geomagnetic survey instrument used to search for minerals by the disturbance of the normal earth-field.
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