Second super-fast flip of Earth's poles found

[Ziggy]

Second super-fast flip of Earth's poles 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.

Now Bogue and his colleague Jonathan Glen of the United States Geological Survey in Menlo Park, California, say they have found a second example in Nevada. The lava rock suggests that in one year, Earth's magnetic field shifted by 53 degrees . At that rate, a full flip would take less than four years

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg2 ... found.html

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*runs sceaming into the hills*