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Magnetic anomaly stripe

From earth surface,2000 miles below lies the earth core.The core of the earth is
about 4200 miles across and is divided into an outer core of liquid iron/nickle alloy and
a nearly soild iron inner core.

The inner and outer core are rotate with earth rotates.The convection of liquid
iron acts like a dynamo and create earth magnetic field.The changes in polarity random,
chaotic instabilities in the way the liquid iron moves around in the core outer.For that
reason magnetic poles reverse time to time.Peridotite is the rich in minerals that contain
iron.The magma generates from it.So that magma which show magnetism.The magma
reach oceanic crust at the mid oceanic ridges,they get cool,the iron will take magnetic
magnetic polarity of magnetic field,When the temperature of the rock drops below the
730C of the rock,they arrange the direction of the magnetic field direction before they
get crystallized.

When the new oceanic crust is being formed by upwelling of magma through the
ridges.And to make room for fresh magma to rise up,the created crust goes away from
the ridges as parallel bands of crust and create a new crust between the ridges.This
process call sea floor spreading.
When the earth's magnetic field change time to time,the arrange direction of the
rock is change oppesitly.According to that and process of sea floor spreading that arrange
layers go away from ridges.In this way the ocean floor comes to consist of alternating
bands of crust parallel to the mid ocean ridges.This called magnetic anomaly stripe.

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