The magnetic field fluctuates, and contrary to what one may read, its cause remains unknown. The axis can be tracked, however, and the location of the "pole" moves about 40 km a year. If one believes the research reported in this article, *and* believes that chunks of the crust shift around (again, without a known cause; the energy requirements are enormous, and no process is available to provide that energy, but that problem is generally brushed aside by uniformitarian gradualists)
Do the continents really drift?The distances between terrestrial radio telescopes can be measured with incredible accuracy by pointing the telescopes at the same celestial targets and operating them as interferometers. The distances between telescopes a continent apart can then be pegged to within 5 centimeters. For example, the distance between radio telescopes at Fort Davis, TX, and Onsala, Sweden, is 7,940,732.17 ± 0.10 meters. If North America and Europe are drifting apart several centimeters per year, this change should have been noticed since 1979, when adequate geodetic precision became available. Actually, no drift has been noted.
by William R. Corliss
Science Frontiers #26: Mar-Apr 1983
(Thomsen, D.E.; "Mark III Interferometer Measures Earth, Sky, and Gravity's Lens," Science News, 123:20, 1983.)
Comment. Of course, continental drift could be episodic, with the continents now static.
Reference. Objections to continental drift are legion. Refer to ETL6 and ETL7 in our Catalog: Carolina Bays, Mima Mounds.
Ancient Earth Had Magnetic FieldJohn Tarduno decided to see if he could use the University's Superconducting Quantum Interference Device (nicknamed "SQUID"), a device normally used in computing chip design, which is extremely sensitive to the tiniest magnetic fields. Tarduno's team took samples from a 1955 lava flow in Hawaii and tried to determine if the paleointensity reading would match the actual Earth's magnetic field strength in 1955. It did. With the method tested, it was time for Tarduno to see what it revealed about the magnetic field back in the days of the dinos. His team took dozens of samples from lava flows in India that were nearly 100 million years old-an unusual time in Earth's history when the field was not reversing-and found that the intensity of the field was three times stronger than the old method suggested.
3x Stronger Than Once Thought
by Jonathan Sherwood
- Earth's Core Spins Faster Than the Rest of the Planet
- Earth's Core Spinning Faster Than Crust
- Scientists find Earth's center is outspinning the surface
- Scientific maverick's theory on Earth's core up for a test
- Sun's rays to roast Earth as poles flip
- Earth's magnetic poles on verge of flipping
Did iron cyclones give Earth a wonky core?
