All guesswork. Nobody knows what is down there.
All guesswork. Nobody knows what is down there.
Isn't this well known and considered normal from what we think we understand about molten spinning iron and magnetic fields?
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>Something strange is going on, deep below the ground beneath our feet. In the molten ocean of iron churning in Earth's outer core, a section deep beneath the Pacific Ocean suddenly reversed direction and started moving eastward against the planet's usual westward flow. This happened in 2010, according to satellite measurements of Earth's magnetic field, and scientists are still trying to figure out what caused it. "The large-scale flow reversal beneath the Pacific raises new questions about the behavior of Earth's deep interior," explains geoscientist Frederik Dahl Madsen of the University of Edinburgh.
Isn't this well known and considered normal from what we think we understand about molten spinning iron and magnetic fields?
Archive: https://archive.today/A5HGt
From the post:
>>Something strange is going on, deep below the ground beneath our feet.
In the molten ocean of iron churning in Earth's outer core, a section deep beneath the Pacific Ocean suddenly reversed direction and started moving eastward against the planet's usual westward flow.
This happened in 2010, according to satellite measurements of Earth's magnetic field, and scientists are still trying to figure out what caused it.
"The large-scale flow reversal beneath the Pacific raises new questions about the behavior of Earth's deep interior," explains geoscientist Frederik Dahl Madsen of the University of Edinburgh.
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