Why Does the Earth s Magnetic Field Keep Flipping?
The geographic north pole doesn t always line up with the magnetic north pole, but what do scientists know about this flipping field? Hosted by: Reid Reimers We want to learn more about you and your opinions! If you have time, please take a moment to fill out this survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SciShowSurvey2017 Thank you! ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters: D.A. Noe, Nicholas Smith, سلطان الخليفي, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Bella Nash, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, Tim Curwick, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Philippe von Bergen, Chris Peters, Fatima Iqbal ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: http://www.geomag.bgs.ac.uk/education/earthmag.html http://www.utdallas.edu/~pujana/oceans/mag.html https://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/stripes.html http://deeptow.whoi.edu/gpts.html https://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/content/investigations/es0802/es0802page04.cfm https://www.theguardian.com/science/2003/apr/10/thisweekssciencequestions3 http://eqseis.geosc.psu.edu/~cammon/HTML/Classes/IntroQuakes/Notes/plate_tect01.html https://books.google.com/books?id=naUIAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA20#v=onepage&q&f=false http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v199/n4897/abs/199947a0.html http://science.sciencemag.org/content/288/5473/2007 https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v434/n7033/full/nature03431.html http://science.sciencemag.org/content/291/5509/1714.full http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X12003421 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/GL013i011p01177/abstract http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0031920188900052 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0031920186901184 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X15000345 http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v377/n6546/abs/377203a0.html https://academic.oup.com/astrogeo/article-lookup/doi/10.1046/j.1468-4004.2002.43309.x https://academic.oup.com/gji/article-abstract/199/2/1110/618671/Extremely-rapid-directional-change-during-Matuyama http://theconversation.com/a-giant-lava-lamp-inside-the-earth-might-be-flipping-the-planets-magnetic-field-77535 http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/02/hyperactive-magnetic-field-may-have-led-one-earth-s-major-extinctions http://www.sciencefocus.com/news/could-geomagnetic-reversal-kill-us-all http://palaeomagnetism.geologist-1011.net https://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/sun_darkness.html Images: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bridge_across_continents_iceland.jpg
