On May 31, 2007, at 1:51 PM, Ed Leafe wrote: >> Huh? How does that happen? Must the always be equal and opposite of >> each other? > > This has been observed in rocks from various parts of the world in > which magnetic crystals abruptly reverse direction. Normally they > align with the Earth's magnetic field, so the only explanation that > would take into account this on a global basis is that the polarity > of the magnetic field flipped.
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