GEOMAGNETIC REVERSALS DRIVEN BY ABRUPT SEA LEVEL CHANGES

doi:10.2172/1004148

Title: GEOMAGNETIC REVERSALS DRIVEN BY ABRUPT SEA LEVEL CHANGES

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Changes in the moment of inertia of the earth, brought about by the redistribution of ocean water from the tropics to ice at high latitudes, couple energy from the spin of the earth into convection in the liquid core. This mechanism may help provide the driving energy for the earth's dynamo. Sufficiently rapid ocean level changes can disrupt the dynamo, resulting (in half of the cases) in a geomagnetic field reversal. The model can account for the previously mysterious correlation reported between geomagnetic reversals and mass extinctions.

Authors:: Muller, R. A.; Morris, D. E.

Publication Date:: 1986-10-01

Research Org.:: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: Accelerator& Fusion Research Division

OSTI Identifier:: 1004148

Report Number(s):: LBL-20131
TRN: US201106%%285

DOE Contract Number:: DE-AC02-05CH11231

Resource Type:: Technical Report

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS; CONVECTION; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; MOMENT OF INERTIA; SEA LEVEL; SPIN; WATER

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                    Muller, R. A., and Morris, D. E. GEOMAGNETIC REVERSALS DRIVEN BY ABRUPT SEA LEVEL CHANGES.  United States: N. p., 1986. 
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                    Muller, R. A., & Morris, D. E. GEOMAGNETIC REVERSALS DRIVEN BY ABRUPT SEA LEVEL CHANGES.  United States.  doi:10.2172/1004148.

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  author       = {Muller, R. A. and Morris, D. E.},

  abstractNote = {Changes in the moment of inertia of the earth, brought about by the redistribution of ocean water from the tropics to ice at high latitudes, couple energy from the spin of the earth into convection in the liquid core. This mechanism may help provide the driving energy for the earth's dynamo. Sufficiently rapid ocean level changes can disrupt the dynamo, resulting (in half of the cases) in a geomagnetic field reversal. The model can account for the previously mysterious correlation reported between geomagnetic reversals and mass extinctions.},

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