Geomagnetic field Flip-flops In a Flash - Science News (Planet X?)

Vatic Note: Is this what the powers that be are hiding from us? Is this why all the problems in the gulf? If so then why not tell us. We are adults, we can deal with it and work together to address it. Its arrogant to think they are superior in dealing with such problems. Or is this another Rahm attitude "Another opportunity presented by a crisis event"? If so, then he and others like him are culpable for not communicating and taking advantage of a potential planet destroying event. Is Planet X the cause of it? We simply do not know, but I suspect the powers that be do know and are not telling us. Well, then until they do, we continue as if they are the enemy trying to harm us in everyway for profit, control, power and gain. So be it.

Geomagnetic field Flip-flops In a Flash - Science News
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/62947/title/Geomagnetic_field_flip-flops_in_a_flash
Scientists unearth more evidence of superfast changes in Earth’s magnetic polarity
By Alexandra Witze , Provided to Vatic Project by Chuck Wilson, Idaho, USA
Web edition : Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

FROZEN FLIPLava flows in Nevada's Sheep Creek Range may have preserved evidence that the planet’s magnetic field rapidly changed direction 15 million years ago. Scott Bogue - photo

Just north of a truck stop along Interstate 80 in Battle Mountain, Nev., lies evidence that the Earth’s magnetic field once went haywire.

Magnetic minerals in 15-million-year-old rocks appear to preserve a moment when the magnetic north pole was rapidly on its way to becoming the south pole, and vice versa. Such “geomagnetic field reversals” occur every couple hundred thousand years, normally taking about 4,000 years to make the change. The Nevada rocks suggest that this particular switch happened at a remarkably fast clip.

Anyone carrying a compass would have seen its measurements skew by about a degree a week — a flash in geologic time. A paper describing the discovery is slated to appear in Geophysical Research Letters.

It is only the second report of such a speedy change in geomagnetic direction. The first, described in 1995 based on rocks at Steens Mountain, Ore., has never gained widespread acceptance in the paleomagnetism community. A second example could bolster the theory that reversals really can happen quickly, over the course of years or centuries instead of millennia.