Another silly(?) question

“so as some of you know I'm looking into the phenomenium (sp?) of geomagnetic reversals....and...unless I'm grossly misinterpreting information (highly possible at this point) I wonder if geomagnetic reversals could hold some sort of key role in the mass extinction and evolutionary blooms...

I base this thought on information on 1) evidence of geomagnetism "developing" around `3 billion yrs ago - around the same time as one anad then multicelled organisms 2) a reversal happening around the time of the mass extiction of marine life (trilobites and other marine life) 3) another reversal happening around the time of the mass extinction of dinosaurs


having hard time finding research on this matter...

But...I think it's kinda a cool thought.


Okay - I am a dork...and probably pushing well beyond my current mental capacity and understanding of these things....I was just a dancer before I went back to school!”

“you pushed was past my mental capacity”

“hmmmm, well since all carbon based life forms emit some sort of, however faint it might be, magnetic field, the idea might have some merit.

I have no idea though, I'm an accountant. LOL


....... what kind of dancer? like the Rockettes, orrr.... never mind.”

“modern dancer - like Ailey? or Mark Morris?


i think it would be cool to study this correlation - if there is one....wish aain i had some sort of genius mentor! is stephen hawkings available? maybe i should indeed double major geology and biology!

anyone want to help with my scholarship fund? this work thing really takes up too much of my brain power LOL!”

“you should email tilt.”

“hmmmm...this could explain the mental dosorder known as liberalism....... NAHHHHHHH...”

“What would have happened
here on earth if there had been
a massive swarm of solar
storms?”

“So are you trying to say that when the geomagnetic field reversed the earth was less protected from solar winds...

Tthus this resulted in large amounts of solar energy reaching the Earth's surface which could result in greater than normal amounts of solar radiation? This increased amount of solar radiation could result in higher than normal rates of mutations...

Is that what you are talking about?”

“Another theory about mass extinctions is that we are a binary system and our sister star only passes close enough every so many million years (26 million, i think is what I read, not sure though) to cause havoc.
Passes though a lot of space dust from comets, etc. and causes our atmosphere to be full of dust and the sunlight doesn't get through like it should.
Causes the plants to die, then the plant eaters, then the meat eaters.
I'm sure you get the picture.
Binary systems are much more common that single star systems and this theory of our system being binary has been tossed around for years.
Just something else to think about.”

“Adventurist,

Sort of.

Will get back to this later - have to do the work thing now :(”

“Coo-Coo for Cocoa Cocoa puffs.

That is why you should sleep in aluminum foil hats. Aluminum is not magnetic.”

“MAT,

have you been watching
"Kindergarten Cop" again?”

“I suggest you contact Marvin Gardens for your geomagnetic questions.”

“Maintaining a good space charge is where its at.”

“I guess it all depends on when exactly life began to form and that time period in relationship to our magnetic field's history..

Which may be looked at by examining the magnetic orientation of rocks formed from that time period?

Wanna do some digging?”

“Hmmmm... I haven't heard a lot about this, though it does surface once in a while.

Our magnetic field definitely protects us from the solar wind, but off-hand I don't know what other effects there might be. That's one for the Biology folks! <G>

And what causes the polarity to change?


weirdness.”

“anybody see the Nova show on this that was on a while back on PBS?

It was about the Earth's magnetic field...

I think it has something to do with what is going on in the Earth's core?

The little green men that live in the core decide to start walking the other direction in their hamster-like wheel.”

“ok, twinks if you do not email me. i am never talking to you again!”

“lol...you guys are nuts!”

“There have been many more magnetic field reversals than mass extinctions. The five big mass extinctions seem to be related to asteroid impacts.

However, that said, within the geologic periods there were minor extinction events. Within the periods, geologic formations mark turnovers in fauna that are often pronounced. So-called index fossils identify formations because they lived only during that time and at no other time. But formations are also marked by changes in depositional patterns and other characteristics, so there was some tectonic event that occurred to change the sediments. What we see in the geologic record is a reflection of the tectonic processes taking place.

The entire Atlantic Ocean has been mapped magnetically, and those magnetic reversals do provide an indicator of time. I don't know that research has yet found a corollary between magnetic reversals and geologic processes.

But the KT boundary has been associated with one magnetic interval. Whether it occured in the middle of the interval or near a boundary I don't recall.

Research into all these things is ongoing. Dr. Paul Olsen of the Lamont Doherty lab is a leading researcher into impacts and extinctions, particularly as they relate to the Newark Basin in New Jersey. He lectured at Rutgers January a year ago on that very subject - a very interesting and dynamic lecture. He has a pretty comprehensive website on the subject as well.”

“And not a silly question, by the way.”

“It's that Dynamo Hum!”

“LOL tilt. that is such a fuuny saying

FZ”

“You werr a stripper? That explains why you did that Austrilan guy on your boyfirend's bed the first time you met him.

On a more seroius note, here's a link to a site discussing Schumann Resonances, Geomangentic Reversals and Human Brain States-http://www.innerx.net/personal/tsmith/Schumann.html
Coincidentlay I came across this link today and was just reading about this.”

“Hey, Twinks, if you figure this out, you're in the running for a nobel prize, you know.”

“there is strong evidence that this is fixin to happen. i've seen several show on that thar TEEVEE contraption... it's very interesting....kinda scary....”

“I dunno if this counts but there is this place in NY where if you take a ball it will roll up hill....
It is near the Canadiagua Finger Lake.. It is a wierd deal....It is a geographical place and I'm thinking it has to have some sort of magnetic reversal....wadda ya say?”

“You werr a stripper? That explains why you did that Austrilan guy on your boyfirend's bed the first time you met him.


hey dumbass, he was not aussy.

is it possible to be THIS stupid in real life?”

“Maybe he's got a little Ozzie in him!>8^O”

“Apparently it is that easy to be that stupid, he being exhibit one.”

“Indeed, it is one thing to be stupid, but quite another to go out of his way to prove it on a public forum. If ignorance is bliss, he's one very happy guy.”

“There are areas in the Adirondacks where compass needles point south instead of north.”

“"modern dancer - like Ailey? or Mark Morris?"

are you asking us or telling us?

2Scoops is dead?
Long live The StormBringer?”

“Ailey....Morris?

Oh yeah, I've partied with those dudes!”

“lumberzac that sounds a$$ backwards.”

“Yeah it is bass ackwards, but it sure makes navigating through the woods fun.”

“Dude, you're using a Canadian compass!!!”

“"hey dumbass, he was not aussy"

effective defense of yer friends honor there, sweetheart

: D”

“Ozzie, ozzie, oi, oi, oi !”

“Obviously, bales is a mean-spirited regular hiding behind a new screen name.”

“There are places on the face of the planet where magnetized iron ore deposits exist, and that is why compasses seem to go berserk.

The area around Sanford Lakes was a large iron mining area in the early 19th Century: titanium mining in the mid-late 20th. There is probably still a lot of ore around there, and elsewhere in the Daks.”

“The Aussie wannabe was no friend of Mapes, or anybody else on this board. Mapes was hardly defending him.”

“See at least someone believes me.”

“not him!

twinks!”

“ya see, twinks is mapes friend and so .......ah forget it, i have packing to do”

“Honer? That's funny.

Try again Geobeet. Or jsut pretend (as usual) that you didn't just type something ignnoruant.”

“jsut?
ignnoruant?”

“I believe you lumberzac.

One question though. Do you drink while you hike?”

“Only at camp at the end of the day. Like Geo said, there is a high iron content in some of the mountains which makes a compass go wacky.”

“He proves my point yet again. The man can't even string words into coherent sentences and he goes around calling people who can ignorant.

Maple may have overestimated you bales. You may not be as smart as stupid.”