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Post by Dave on Jul 14, 2012 3:12:50 GMT -5
Growth of Earth's core may hint at magnetic reversal
New Scientist, 15:29 13 July 2012 by Will Ferguson "Lopsided growth of the Earth's core could explain why its magnetic field reverses direction every few thousand years. If it happened now, we would be exposed to solar winds capable of knocking out global communications and power grids.
One side of Earth's solid inner core grows slightly while the other half melts. Peter Olson and Renaud Deguen of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, used numerical modelling to establish that the axis of Earth's magnetic field lies in the growing hemisphere – a finding that suggests shifts in the field are connected to growth of the inner core."
Look at that liquids and semi-solids / solids grow - expand.
If the core expands - what must that do to the mantel or surface crust? Earthquake? Volcanic eruption? Mid-oceanic ridge eruption?
Even now, toward the end of the "Whole Earth Decompression Dynamic" expansion - the mechanism is the same. The process is the same. AND the consequence is the same.
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Post by Dave on Jul 14, 2012 3:45:07 GMT -5
Eccentricity of the geomagnetic dipole caused by lopsided inner core growthby: Peter Olson & Renaud Deguen; Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA Nature Geoscience, (2012) doi:10.1038/ngeo1506, Received 10 January 2012 - Accepted 25 May 2012 Published online 01 July 2012 www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ngeo1506.html"Seismic images of Earth’s inner core reveal an east–west dichotomy. This dichotomy has been interpreted as lopsided growth, with faster solidification on one hemisphere of the inner core boundary, and slower solidification and perhaps melting on the other..." Supplemental data available @ www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/vaop/ncurrent/extref/ngeo1506-s1.pdf
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