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[__ Science __ ] #5 Rapidly Decaying Magnetic Field

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The Earth's magnetic field is sometimes getting stronger and sometimes weakening. We can look back into the past by examining the magnetic orientation of rocks that formed at different times, and even by looking at the stones that were incorportated into ancient structures.

Paleomagnetism, or palaeomagnetism, is the study of the record of the Earth's magnetic field in rocks, sediment, or archeological materials. Magnetic minerals in rocks can lock-in a record of the direction and intensity of the magnetic field when they form. This record provides information on the past behavior of Earth's magnetic field and the past location of tectonic plates. The record of geomagnetic reversals preserved in volcanic and sedimentary rock sequences (magnetostratigraphy) provides a time-scale that is used as a geochronologic tool. Geophysicists who specialize in paleomagnetism are called paleomagnetists.

Paleomagnetists led the revival of the continental drift hypothesis and its transformation into plate tectonics. Apparent polar wander paths provided the first clear geophysical evidence for continental drift, while marine magnetic anomalies did the same for seafloor spreading. Paleomagnetic data continues to extend the history of plate tectonics back in time as it can be used to constrain the ancient position and movement of continents and continental fragments (terranes).

Paleomagnetism relied heavily on new developm
ents in rock magnetism, which in turn has provided the foundation for new applications of magnetism.

AIG has made the error of supposing the current fluctuation has been constant over the ages.
 
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