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There are some phenomena you can count on, but the magnetic field, someday, is not of them. It fluctuates in strength, drifts fr
There are some phenomena you can count on, but the magnetic field, someday, is not of them. It fluctuates in strength, drifts fr
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2010-12-25
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There are some phenomena you can count on, but the magnetic field, someday, is not of them. It fluctuates in strength, drifts from its axis, and every few 100000 years undergo, dramatic polarity reversal—a period when north pole becomes south pole and south pole becomes north pole. But how is the field generated, and why is it so unstable?
Groundbreaking research by two French geophysicists promises to shed some light on the mystery. Using 80 meters of deep sea sediment(沉淀物)core, they have obtained measurements lots of magnetic-field intensity that span 11 polarity reversals and four million years. The analysis reveals that intensity appears to fluctuate with a clear, well-defined rhythm. Although the strength of the magnetic field varies irregularly during the short term, there seems to be an inevitable long-term decline preceding each polarity reversal. When the poles flip—a process that takes several hundred thousand years—the magnetic field rapidly regains its strength and the cycle is repeated.
The results have caused a stir among geophysicists. The magnetic field is thought to originate from molten (熔化的)iron in the outer cote, 3000 kilometers beneath the earth’s surface. By studying mineral grains found in material ranging from rocks to clay articles, previous researchers have already been able to identify reversals dating back 170 million years, including the most recent switch 730, 000 years ago. How and why they occur, however, has been widely debated. Several theories link polarity flips to external disasters such as meteor(陨星) impacts. But Peter Olson, a geophysicist at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, says this is unlikely if the French researchers are right In fact, Olson says intensity that predictably declines from one reversal to the next contradicts 90 percent of the models currently under study. If the results prove to be valid geophysicists will have a new theory to guide them in their quest to understand the earth’s inner physics. It certainly points the direction for future research.
Which of the following titles is most appropriate to the passage?
选项
A、Polarity Reversal: A Fantastic Phenomenon of Nature.
B、Measurement of the Earth’s Magnetic-Field Intensity.
C、Formation of the Two Poles of the Earth.
D、A New Approach to the Study or Geophysics.
答案
D
解析
文章内容表明,两位法国物理学家的新研究也许能够解开地磁场之谜,因此,受到地理学界的广泛关注。
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