{"id":3560,"date":"2009-12-10T12:47:07","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T12:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2009\/12\/a-new-theory-on-what-powers-the-earths-magnetic-field\/"},"modified":"2009-12-10T12:47:07","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T12:47:07","slug":"a-new-theory-on-what-powers-the-earths-magnetic-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2009\/12\/a-new-theory-on-what-powers-the-earths-magnetic-field\/","title":{"rendered":"A new theory on what powers the Earth&#8217;s magnetic field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"float: left; padding: 5px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/chrisicon2.jpg\" width=\"49\" height=\"50\" alt=\"A post by Chris Rowan\"\/><\/span>I have, in the past, tried to explain <a href=https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2008\/03\/where-the-earths-magnetic-field-comes-from\/>how the Earth&#8217;s magnetic field is generated<\/a> by convection in the Earth&#8217;s molten outer core. Here, in Scotland, however, it seems that they have their own ideas (sorry for the poor picture quality):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IRNbru.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"464\" alt=\"IRNbru.JPG\"\/><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve never experienced the excessively scary orangeness of <a href=http:\/\/www.irn-bru.co.uk\/our-drinks.html>Irn Bru<\/a>, Scotland&#8217;s <em>other<\/em> natural drink, then you&#8217;ve missed out on supping a heady brew that probably contains more additives than water. Perhaps, then, the magnetic field is merely a side-effect of a planetary interior stimulated into hyperactivity by all the artificial colourings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have, in the past, tried to explain how the Earth&#8217;s magnetic field is generated by convection in the Earth&#8217;s molten outer core. Here, in Scotland, however, it seems that they have their own ideas (sorry for the poor picture &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2009\/12\/a-new-theory-on-what-powers-the-earths-magnetic-field\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloggery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}