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    The document discusses Earth's layers and the challenges of drilling deep into the planet. It covers how seismic waves, lab experiments, and Newton's evidence help study Earth's layers. Technologies like drillships and lasers have allowed drilling as far as the Kola Peninsula, but temperatures and pressure rise rapidly with depth, posing challenges. The magnetic field is important for technologies like GPS but has reversed polarity in the past and could do so again, disrupting systems temporarily. While a reversal may cause issues, it would not be catastrophic.

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    The document discusses Earth's layers and the challenges of drilling deep into the planet. It covers how seismic waves, lab experiments, and Newton's evidence help study Earth's layers. Technologies like drillships and lasers have allowed drilling as far as the Kola Peninsula, but temperatures and pressure rise rapidly with depth, posing challenges. The magnetic field is important for technologies like GPS but has reversed polarity in the past and could do so again, disrupting systems temporarily. While a reversal may cause issues, it would not be catastrophic.

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    The Impossible

    Destination
    By: Samantha Estes
    What’s being done to study Earth’s Layers?
    -Observing seismic waves to observe the layers
    -Conduct Lab Experiments
    -Use Isaac Newton’s evidence
    What Tools/Tech Has Been Invented/Used To Help?

    -Drillships
    -High power carbon dioxide lasers
    -Tungsten Carbide roller cones
    -Riserless Mud Recovery (RMH)
    How and where have they drilled the furthest

    -Kola peninsula
    -Created a drill where only the
    tip/bit rotated
    -Took about 20 years
    -Stopped the project due to the
    chaos of the post-soviet Russia
    ordeal
    Why Is It So Difficult To Dig Far Into Our Layers?

    -Temperatures rise with every kilometer dug


    -Pressure also rises
    -Need a team to make trip successful
    Magnetic Field
    Why Is The Magnetic Field Important?

    -Acts as a type of shield


    -If it were to disappear
    -GPS would stop working
    -The south Atlantic Anomaly could become more
    common around the world
    -Compass’ would find the closest magnetic source
    and use that as a replacement
    Has The Magnetic Field Been Around For All Of
    Earth’s History?
    -hard to tell
    -Has existed for at least 3.5 billion years
    -started to harden/solidify 1 billion years ago
    -driven by other mechanism before
    What Do We Know About The Magnetic Field?

    -powered by solidifying liquid core


    ---It is powerful electric currents that reach far
    out into space
    -named the Geomagnetic field
    What Are Magnetic Reversals?

    -Dictionary definition
    -A change in the Earth's magnetic field resulting in the magnetic

    north being aligned with the geographic south, and the magnetic south
    being aligned with the geographic north. Also called geomagnetic
    reversal

    -chunks of stirred up liquid iron get flipped


    -reversed aligned atoms
    What would happen if a magnetic reversal happened
    again??
    -communications and power grids could be
    disrupted
    -migratory animals would face some issues
    -multiple north and south poles
    -more vulnerable to cancer
    -compass wouldn’t work and GPS would be
    Should We Worry About Another Magnetic Reversal?

    -Probably not
    -major chaos won’t breakout
    -power outages
    -parts of Earth inhabitable(maybe)
    -Reversal won’t happen overnight
    If it were to reverse again- what would happen to us
    and how would it affect the world?
    -weakness in field
    -cancerous radiation
    -no continental shift
    What’s The difference Between True North And South
    And Magnetic North And South?
    True
    -meet at lines of longitude
    -completely opposite of eachother

    Magnetic
    -Meet where the northern lines of attraction enter Earth
    -about 311 miles from true north pole
    Thank You

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