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    A geomagnetic reversal is a change in the Earth's dipole magnetic field such that the positions of magnetic north and magnetic south are interchanged (not...
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  • The following is a list of geomagnetic reversals, showing the ages of the beginning and end of each period of normal polarity (where the polarity matches...
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    magnetic south and vice versa – an event known as a geomagnetic reversal. Evidence of geomagnetic reversals can be seen at mid-ocean ridges where tectonic...
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    with geomagnetic north becoming geomagnetic south and vice versa – an event known as a geomagnetic reversal. Evidence of geomagnetic reversals can be...
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    places. These reversals of the geomagnetic poles leave a record in rocks that are of value to paleomagnetists in calculating geomagnetic fields in the...
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    feels daily from the Moon. Another idea tied to 2012 involved a geomagnetic reversal (often referred to as a pole shift by proponents), possibly triggered...
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  • or Laschamps event, also termed the Adams event, was a geomagnetic excursion (a short reversal of the Earth's magnetic field). It occurred between 42...
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  • that the reversal lasted 22,000 years. The apparent duration at any particular location can vary by an order of magnitude, depending on geomagnetic latitude...
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  • A geomagnetic excursion, like a geomagnetic reversal, is a significant change in the Earth's magnetic field. Unlike reversals, an excursion is not a long-term...
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    Permian–Triassic extinctions. One theory is that periods of increased geomagnetic reversals will weaken Earth's magnetic field long enough to expose the atmosphere...
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  • for the Apple II The Reversal, a 2010 novel by Michael Connelly Geomagnetic reversal, a change in a planet's magnetic field such that the positions of...
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    spun out of control, losing its solar panels in the process. Geomagnetic reversal Geomagnetic storm Large low-shear-velocity provinces Operation Argus Space...
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  • January 27, 1987) was an American geophysicist. His work on dating geomagnetic reversals, with Richard Doell and Brent Dalrymple, made a major contribution...
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    on the past behavior of the geomagnetic field and the past location of tectonic plates. The record of geomagnetic reversals preserved in volcanic and sedimentary...
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    the polarity of the Earth's field reverses. These geomagnetic reversals, analyzed within a Geomagnetic Polarity Time Scale, contain 184 polarity intervals...
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  • The Gauss–Matuyama Reversal was a geologic event approximately 2.58 Ma when the Earth's magnetic field underwent a geomagnetic reversal from normal polarity...
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    of the geomagnetic field reversals (GMFR) of Earth's magnetic field. Extensive studies were dedicated to the calibration of the normal-reversal patterns...
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  • event List of geomagnetic reversals Herrero-Bervera, Emilio, and S. Keith Runcorn. "Transition Fields during the Geomagnetic Reversals and Their Geodynamic...
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    his 1906 discovery of geomagnetic reversal. The current period of normal polarity, Brunhes Chron, and the Brunhes–Matuyama reversal are named for him. Brunhes...
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    reversals. In 1985, Muller and others proposed a geophysical model that explained the magnetic reversals as the result of a decrease in geomagnetic field...
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    places. These reversals of the geomagnetic poles leave a record in rocks that are of value to paleomagnetists in calculating geomagnetic fields in the...
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    with theories including a nearby supernova, climate change, or a geomagnetic reversal.: 1095  The Alvarezes' impact hypothesis was rejected by many paleontologists...
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    structures obscured by overlying material. The magnetic variation (geomagnetic reversals) in successive bands of ocean floor parallel with mid-ocean ridges...
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    states that the Earth's oceanic crust acts as a recorder of reversals in the geomagnetic field direction as seafloor spreading takes place. Harry Hess...
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    movement of the Indian plate is an illusion wrought by large errors in geomagnetic reversal timing around the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary, and that a recalibration...
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  • do not trap energetic charged particles in orbit around the planet. Geomagnetic storms can cause electron density to increase or decrease relatively...
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    Geodesy Geoid Physical geodesy Magnetism Earth's magnetic field Geomagnetic reversal Magnetosphere Paleomagnetism Solar wind Waves Seismology Spectroscopy...
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    Geodesy Geoid Physical geodesy Magnetism Earth's magnetic field Geomagnetic reversal Magnetosphere Paleomagnetism Solar wind Waves Seismology Spectroscopy...
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    There should also be secondary markers (other fossils, chemical, geomagnetic reversal). The horizon in which the marker appears should have minerals that...
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    Geomagnetic storms and ionospheric storms are temporary and intense disturbances of the Earth's magnetosphere and ionosphere. During a geomagnetic storm...
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