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published by the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
Visit this NASA site to find out about long-term changes in Earth's magnetic field, and how magnetic stripes in the Atlantic seafloor provide evidence for reversals of this field.  You'll see a model of Earth's interior that helps explain how Earth's magnetic field is generated and how the reversals occur.  Also, a computer-generated image shows the complicated magnetic field in-between reversals.
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Keywords: Earth's magnetic field, magnetic reversal, magnetic stripes, paleomagnnetism, seafloor spreading
Record Creators: Metadata instance created April 27, 2007 by Ed Lee
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
Record Updated: Apr 23, 2010 by Lyle Barbato
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Earth's Inconstant Magnetic Field (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville), <https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2003/29dec_magneticfield/>.
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Earth's Inconstant Magnetic Field. (n.d.). Retrieved September 12, 2024, from NASA Marshall Space Flight Center: https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2003/29dec_magneticfield/
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NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. Earth's Inconstant Magnetic Field. Huntsville: NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2003/29dec_magneticfield/ (accessed 12 September 2024).
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Earth's Inconstant Magnetic Field. Huntsville: NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. 12 Sep. 2024 <https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2003/29dec_magneticfield/>.
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