Descoberta a segunda super virada dos polos da Terra

Second super-fast flip of Earth's poles found

Updated 12:04 03 September 2010

Magazine issue 2776.

SOME 16 million years ago, north became south in a matter of years. Such fast flips are impossible, according to models of the Earth's core, but this is now the second time that evidence has been found.

The magnetic poles swap every 300,000 years, a process that normally takes up to 5000 years. In 1995 an ancient lava flow with an unusual magnetic pattern was discovered in Oregon. It suggested that the field at the time was moving by 6 degrees a day - at least 10,000 times faster than usual. "Not many people believed it," says Scott Bogue of Occidental College in Los Angeles.

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Read more here/Leia mais aqui: New Scientist

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NOTA DESTE BLOGGER:

O que mais poderia ter causado isso? Um cataclisma natural de proporções universais indescritíveis, mas intensamente destruidor???

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