Pole Shifts
There is some evidence that these occur every 20,000 or 30,000 years. The centres of the ice sheets during the various recent ice ages were not at the locations of the present poles. The centre of the northern ice sheet during the last age was in Hudson Bay in Canada. When the pole moved to its present location about 20,000 years ago the ice sheet rapidly melted but at the same time thousands and thousands of mammoth and other animals in Siberia were permanently frozen - with the remains of buttercups and other summer pasture plants still in their stomachs. This is because when Hudson Bay moved south, Siberia went north by the same amount.

There is other evidence - such as ancient maps that show Antarctica ice-free with rivers and mountains, and modern soundings through the ice show that the maps are quite accurate.

Although the continental drift theory has now become fully accepted and understood; the same is not true of the pole shift theory. Although there is evidence for it there is no well understood mechanism for it, and many people find it hard to believe it could really happen. A typical movement seems to be about a 1,000 miles in a matter of days.

It is fairly certain that the whole planet does not shift - just the thin outer skin, or crust, that we live on. The crust floats on a liquid interior, the core is molten metal hotter than the surface of the Sun (6,000°C) and on top of that there is a great depth of molten rock. The convection currents in the molten rock drive continental drift. If the Earth is hit by big enough objects from space the vibrations may liquidize a layer a few miles down in the crust so that it is able to slide freely over the interior. If this does happen then any area that was heavier than average would head towards the equator - because of the centrifugal force due to the rotation of the planet, which is quite fast - the speed at the equator is over 1,000 miles per hour. Heavy areas might be the Tibetan Plateau or the lopsided Antarctic ice sheet.

The effect at ground level will be severe in places. The movement will be more in some areas less in others - areas that move least will rotate rather than change latitude. Some areas may buckle or tear causing huge volcanoes. The sea will not move with the land but will slosh about causing huge tsunami and massive flooding.

If these events do follow large impacts there will also be serious effects on the climate plus the blast damage. The worst affected places will be those areas that become the new poles - as the mammoth example shows.

There is a mention of the Earth tilting in The Book of Enoch, in a short section written by Noah. This may be the only existing eye witness account of the shift that marked the end of the last ice age.

The magnetic poles sometimes reverse, the last time was 740,000 years ago, and there may be another reversal soon. The magnetic pole normally aligns with the rotation axis but may become chaotic during a reversal. This could have some consequences on the ground but it should be trivial compared to a shift in the rotation axis. See the link below.

The sun's magnetic field reverses every 11 years. The next one is due in 2012.


Hutton Commentaries
http://www.huttoncommentaries.com/PSResear...e_precursor.htm

Pole Shift News
http://wrightworld.net/poleshiftnews.htm

Apollonius.Net - The Cosmic Tree
http://www.apollonius.net/cosmictree.html

Magnetic field reversals:

Earth
http://www.unknowncountry.com/news/?id=2297

Sun
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/as....htm?list151777


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This is nuts. I don't know what would be worse, -this pole shift or a super volcanoe. I'd almost bet if we moved far from the volcanoe and potential storm areas that we could have a better chance at surviving the volcanoe!!

Forget the navigational problems planes and boats would have, these magnetic fields encompassing(sp) the earth could be down for years before they actually reverse and come back up again. Amagine the radiation we will be exposed to...

There was a chart on it not that long ago... and I can't find it for some stupid reason but there will be massive areas of the earth that will have no protection at all. They will just all fry. Time to move to Mars.

Ya that is scary. Like when the poles and feilds reverse, it will be devastating. The earths crust will be flipped and it will be like ocean waves causing flooding, every natural disaster you can think of. It would take I think I've heard several thousand years before earth went back to normal. So ya we'd be dead by then! Sad though, real sad!! And scary!!

check out "probing the geodynamo" in april's scientific american.

Actually, I beleive the safest place on Earth would be above the deapest point in the ocean. The waves will not be that devestating far from the shore and the middle of no where and you don't need to worry about valcanoes... I think its time to have a bomb shelter built on my lot, lol.

Nope not even there, there's also volcanoes deep in the oceans and the water temperatures there are very high not sure how much though.

If this happens, I'm gonna get in my car, floor it and hope im going the right way.

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I don't know how many times this needs to be said

The crust is not going to shift, just the magnetic fields - therefore compases will point south instread of north.

It's not going to be a disaster or extinction-level event, just a nucence to those people who still use compases.

The pole shift may have already started.

According to articles on www.PoleReversal.com the "Chandler Wobble" just stopped.

The Chandler wobble was first discovered back in 1891 by Seth Carlo Chandler an American astronomer. The effect causes the Earth's poles to move in an irregular circle of 3 to 15 metres in diameter in an oscillation.

The track of the spin began to slow down around January 8, 2006 it ceased nearly all relative motion.

You know what, this is realy nothing to worry about. The megnetic feild will be down for about an hour or so. And then it will be back up, not up to full strengh but close.

So mostly it will be animals who will be screwed over for a bit untill they find a new rout to migrate. We will still be able to find our ways with GPS, Maps, and landmark. As well as stars etc as humans dont rely on the Megnetic feild for navigation.

Also the current Northern Megnetic pole is not at the North Pole.

~Thanato

It would be amazing sight to see if it was to happen in my life time

It would be kewl.. (yep, and not a damn thing we can do about it, so might as well enjoy the ride...)