Sentences with phrase «magnetic north wanders»

Magnetic north wanders, and every few hundred thousand years the polarity flips so that a compass would point south instead of north.

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Not only does the Earths magnetic field wander around on time scales of a century or so, but every 100,000 years or so it completely changes direction, with the north (magnetic) pole becoming the south (magnetic) pole.

If the North Magnetic Pole continues wandering fairly rapidly into Siberia, it might set up a northern ozone hole by attenuating the Rossby waves over the continental land masses rimming the Arctic Ocean.