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To: Republic_of_Secession.

No, a magnetic reversal does NOT happen around once every 13,000 years. Their interval, in fact, is highly irregular, perhaps even chaotic. The last major reversal was 780,000 years ago, although there were temporary collapses in magnetism since then, which I presume is what this article is calling a reversal. Some reversals were millions of years ago, some happened within several thousand years of each other, if you count these momentary collapses as reversals.

The magnetic field is currently weakening; this in no way suggests a major or minor reversal is coming. At the current rate of collapse, it would take over 1000 years to completely collapse, and such variations are completely normal outside of any long-scale trend.


22 posted on 07/29/2009 9:05:20 PM PDT by dangus (I am JimThompson)
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24 posted on 07/29/2009 9:08:50 PM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld (You hit somebody with your fist and not with your fingers spread". Generaloberst Heinz Guderian)
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To: dangus
According to magma flows there have been several thousand magnetic pole changes.
38 posted on 07/29/2009 10:22:34 PM PDT by guitarplayer1953 (Warning: Some words may be misspelled/ You will get over it / Klingon is my 1st language)
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