Poles and Drifts
Posted on
February 19, 2019 by
Louis Hissink
One of the unintended consequences of assuming the geomagnetic field is formed by external plasma currents, specifically the plasma z-pinch structure of which the Earth is the focus, is the problem of polar wander over geological time. It’s the documented geological fact that the magnetic poles have indeed moved over time, but did the poles move, or did the continents move?
The present day observation of polar movement is evidence enough that the documented remnant magnetism in rocks is not caused by plate movement or earth expansion. Nor can this movement be explained by upper core turbulent fluid behaviour, or the present dynamo model, since there is no physical mechanism to explain core turbulence; it’s all mathematics and modelling, and hence technically sophisticated gibberish.
Plate tectonics, and for that matter most global tectonic models, all rely on the spatial permanence of geomagnetic field being the benchmark or reference point from which continental drift etc. is deduced. It is assumed the Earth has always been oriented at its present state, though the geomagnetic record can only be traced back to Jurassic times.
Given the present day observation of geomagnetic polar movement, it is obvious the geomagnetic field’s orientation has nothing to do with the Earth’s rotation or tectonic plate movement. Which means the plates are not moving as proposed by plate tectonic theory. Nor can the Earth be expanding either since earth expansion theory also relies on the geomagnetic field being constant in orientation over time.
The logical conclusion is that neither plate tectonics or earth expansion theories are supported by the geophysical evidence. This leads to the question of how the various ocean basins or surface depressions were formed. Subsidence by degassing? Or plasma erosion during past catastrophes? Or both? (In addition any tectonic model that relies on geomagnetic polar motion should be rejected).
By the way if the Earth is located at the focus of a plasma Z-Pinch structure, then gravity is easily explained as a radially aligned Lorentz force