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Magnetic-Reversal

Harry Hess was a professor of geology at Princeton University who became interested in ocean geology while serving in the Navy during World War II. Using new sonar technology, he mapped the ocean floor across the North Pacific. Sonar uses sound waves, which travel farther in water than light or radar waves, making it useful for exploring the ocean. The mid-ocean ridge forms along a crack in the oceanic crust where molten material rises from the mantle and erupts, spreading out and pushing older rock to the sides of the ridge as it cools and forms new crust. Paleomagnetism, the study of ancient magnetism preserved in rocks, allows determination of former latitudes and provides evidence that magnetic polarity patterns in

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Magnetic-Reversal

Harry Hess was a professor of geology at Princeton University who became interested in ocean geology while serving in the Navy during World War II. Using new sonar technology, he mapped the ocean floor across the North Pacific. Sonar uses sound waves, which travel farther in water than light or radar waves, making it useful for exploring the ocean. The mid-ocean ridge forms along a crack in the oceanic crust where molten material rises from the mantle and erupts, spreading out and pushing older rock to the sides of the ridge as it cools and forms new crust. Paleomagnetism, the study of ancient magnetism preserved in rocks, allows determination of former latitudes and provides evidence that magnetic polarity patterns in

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REVIEW AND

RECALL
GUESS THE
GIBBERISH AND
EXPLAIN IT
MOUTH TRAIN
RAIN JAZZ
MOUNTAIN RANGES
is evidences for the continental drift hypothesis. Ancient fossils of
the same species of extinct plants and animals are found in rocks of
the same age but are on continents that are now widely separated.
HAIRY REST
HARRY HESS
Harry Hess was a professor of geology at Princeton University (USA), and
became interested in the geology of the oceans while serving in the US Navy
in World War II. His time as a Navy officer was an opportunity to
use sonar (also called echo sounding), then a new technology, to map the
ocean floor across the North Pacific.
ZONE ARE
SONAR
Sonar, short for Sound Navigation and Ranging, is
helpful for exploring and mapping the ocean because
sound waves travel farther in the water than do radar
and light waves.
MOLE TENT MATH
EAR ALL
MOLTEN MATERIAL
The mid-ocean ridge forms along a crack in the oceanic crust. At the
mid-ocean ridge, molten material rises from the mantle and
erupts. The molten material then spreads out, pushing older rock to
both sides of the ridge. As the molten material cools, it forms a strip of
solid rock in the center of the ridge.
FOUL YOU MUG
NET THICK
PALEOMAGNETIC
Paleomagnetism, the study of ancient magnetism preserved in
rocks, permits paleolatitudes (former latitudes) to be determined by
measuring the direction of magnetism locked in iron-bearing
minerals at or soon after the time the rocks were formed.
ALT PAID WAGE
NEAR
ALFRED WEGENER
Wegener was a German meteorologist, geophysicist and polar
researcher. In 1915 he published 'The Origin of Continents and
Oceans', which outlined his theory of Continental Drift.
FANG AGE YEAH
PANGAEA
Pangea, also spelled Pangaea, in early geologic time,
a supercontinent that incorporated almost all the
landmasses on Earth.
MUG KNEE THICK FOUL
ART TEA
MAGNETIC POLARITY
Electrons flow in the opposite direction of the current. This creates a
magnetic field and magnetic polarity that has north and south
poles. It is parallel pattern in oceanic crust.
WHERE DO I
BELONG?
  
AFTER YOU GUESS THE GIBBERISH
WORDS, NOW IDENTIFY IF THEY
BELONG TO CONTINENTAL DRIFT
OR SEAFLOOR SPREADING.
ANSWER IT ON YOUR ONE WHOLE
SHEET OF PAPER.
 
CONTINENTAL DRIFT SEAFLOOR
SPREADING
GUIDE QUESTIONS
1.What did you notice about the
gibberish words that you
guessed?
2.What are you relying on to
identify these words and place
them in their proper column? 
MAGNETIC REVERSAL
Seafloor Spreading was strengthened with the
discovery that the magnetic rocks near the ridge follow
a pattern aside from the fact that rocks near the ridge
are remarkably younger than those farther from the
ridge. A magnetic compass tells us directions on Earth.
It also proves that the Earth has a magnetic field. The
needle of a magnetic compass usually points to the
north pole of the Earth which is actually the South
Magnetic Pole at present. The Earth’s magnetic field is
generated in the very hot molten outer core and has
already existed since the birth of our planet. The
Earth’s magnetic field is a dipole, one that has a North
Pole and a South Pole.
What is magnetic reversal? How does
magnetic reversal happen and how does
it prove seafloor spreading? Magnetic
reversal is also called magnetic “flip” of
the Earth. It happens when the North
Pole is transformed into South Pole and
the South Pole becomes the North Pole.
This is due do the change in the
direction of flow in the outer core.
MAGNETIC POLARITY MAP

Rate = distance / time


If Africa is approximately 2400 km away from the
Mid-Atlantic Ridge, how long ago was it when
Africa was directly at or near the Mid-Atlantic
Ridge?
REFLECTION
I learned… I felt…
I realized …

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