User talk:Tylersturf

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The Wikipedia tutorial is a good place to start learning about Wikipedia. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and discussion pages using four tildes, like this: &#126;&#126;&#126;&#126; (the software will replace them with your signature and the date). Again, welcome! Dougweller (talk) 16:30, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

Pole shift hypothesis
I've reverted you.

The book you added is just another fringe book. Maybe if it gets picked up and discussed by more well known authors it might belong somewhere, but as it is, WP:UNDUE applies. You removed material without explanation and added material that I don't see justified from a source that says "Even if it was a super-fast flip-flop, however, it would not be noticeable to most people." The fact that magnetic shifts might be related to some physical effects doesn't seem relevant to the hypothesis of an actual shift of the earth's poles. We all get reverted, so please don't let this discourage you. Dougweller (talk) 16:37, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

I think there is plenty of evidence for rapid pole shifts, too much to put in the wikipedia article; including additional citations to the lava I had mentioned, for example: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v374/n6524/abs/374687a0.html New evidence for extraordinarily rapid change of the geomagnetic field during a reversal

R. S. Coe*, M. Prévot† & P. Camps†

†Laboratoire de Géophysique et Tectonique, Université de Montpellier 2, URA CNRS 1760, 34095 Montpellier Cédex 05, France
 * Earth Sciences Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA

Palaeomagnetic results from lava flows recording a geomagnetic polarity reversal at Steens Mountain, Oregon suggest the occurrence of brief episodes of astonishingly rapid field change of six degrees per day. The evidence is large, systematic variations in the direction of remanent magnetization as a function of the temperature of thermal demagnetization and of vertical position within a single flow, which are most simply explained by the hypothesis that the field was changing direction as the flow cooled.

How many PhDs and other authors need to support an idea before it is not considered fringe? I believe the evidence for rapid pole shifts is staggering and that the main pole shift article is largely incorrect. What does one do to present relevant facts, even if only presented as a disputed theory? Tylersturf (talk) 19:22, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

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