What Was Going On With Earth’s Magnetic Field A Billion Years Ago?
We know about our North and South poles, but what about an East, West, or slightly-to-the-left pole? According to new research published in Geophysical Research Letters, around 1 billion years ago, that might have been a possibility. Peter Driscoll, a staff scientist at the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, said…