Plate Tectonics - University of Hawaii at Hilo
... Plate Tectonics Continental drift-evidence for drifting continents Seafloor spreading-evidence for it: Sediment distribution, elevation, paleomagnetism What causes the magnetic field of the earth? How is paleomagnetism useful for determining age of rocks. Magnetic field reversals. What is magnetic i ...
... Plate Tectonics Continental drift-evidence for drifting continents Seafloor spreading-evidence for it: Sediment distribution, elevation, paleomagnetism What causes the magnetic field of the earth? How is paleomagnetism useful for determining age of rocks. Magnetic field reversals. What is magnetic i ...
Earth Science - California Lutheran University
... Harry Hess, a Captain during WWII, gathered data while cruising from battle to battle ...
... Harry Hess, a Captain during WWII, gathered data while cruising from battle to battle ...
11. Sea Floor Spreading
... According to the theory of plate tectonics, the Earth’s crust is broken into many slowly moving plates/ 2. True or False Sea floor spreading occurs at the mid-ocean ridge where two plates are moving away from each other. 3. The objective of today’s laboratory is? 4. List the apparatus used in today’ ...
... According to the theory of plate tectonics, the Earth’s crust is broken into many slowly moving plates/ 2. True or False Sea floor spreading occurs at the mid-ocean ridge where two plates are moving away from each other. 3. The objective of today’s laboratory is? 4. List the apparatus used in today’ ...
Geomagnetic reversal
A geomagnetic reversal is a change in a planet's magnetic field such that the positions of magnetic north and magnetic south are interchanged. The Earth's field has alternated between periods of normal polarity, in which the direction of the field was the same as the present direction, and reverse polarity, in which the field was the opposite. These periods are called chrons. The time spans of chrons are randomly distributed with most being between 0.1 and 1 million years with an average of 450,000 years. Most reversals are estimated to take between 1,000 and 10,000 years.The latest one, the Brunhes–Matuyama reversal, occurred 780,000 years ago;and may have happened very quickly, within a human lifetime. A brief complete reversal, known as the Laschamp event, occurred only 41,000 years ago during the last glacial period. That reversal lasted only about 440 years with the actual change of polarity lasting around 250 years. During this change the strength of the magnetic field dropped to 5% of its present strength. Brief disruptions that do not result in reversal are called geomagnetic excursions.