Comments on: Book review – The Spinning Magnet: The Force That Created the Modern World – and Could Destroy It/2018/07/02/book-review-the-spinning-magnet-the-force-that-created-the-modern-world-and-could-destroy-it/Reviewing fascinating science books since 2017Tue, 04 Jul 2023 07:52:14 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Book review – Land of Wondrous Cold: The Race to Discover Antarctica and Unlock the Secrets of Its Ice | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/07/02/book-review-the-spinning-magnet-the-force-that-created-the-modern-world-and-could-destroy-it/comment-page-1/#comment-29761Wed, 06 Oct 2021 13:32:49 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1845#comment-29761[…] clarifies how palaeomagnetism, the record of Earth’s magnetic field in the past, shows both reversal of its magnetic poles and apparent polar wander. This rather abstract concept of our planet’s magnetic poles moving […]

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]]>By: Book review – Weird Earth: Debunking Strange Ideas about Our Planet | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/07/02/book-review-the-spinning-magnet-the-force-that-created-the-modern-world-and-could-destroy-it/comment-page-1/#comment-28342Tue, 21 Sep 2021 09:42:33 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1845#comment-28342[…] on Mount Shasta, and the lost continent of Atlantis. A smattering of others deal with myths around shifts of the magnetic pole, earthquake predictions, and the claim that the moon landing was a hoax, admittedly an outlier that […]

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]]>By: Book review – The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks: Tales of Important Geological Puzzles and the People Who Solved Them | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/07/02/book-review-the-spinning-magnet-the-force-that-created-the-modern-world-and-could-destroy-it/comment-page-1/#comment-4256Fri, 31 May 2019 08:57:39 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1845#comment-4256[…] findings from amongst other palaeomagnetism (see my review of The Tectonic Plates are Moving! and The Spinning Magnet: The Force That Created the Modern World – and Could Destroy It). But he also highlights subsequent insights, such as subduction zones and transform faults (e.g. […]

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]]>By: Book review – Erebus: The Story of a Ship | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/07/02/book-review-the-spinning-magnet-the-force-that-created-the-modern-world-and-could-destroy-it/comment-page-1/#comment-1632Mon, 05 Nov 2018 10:50:51 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1845#comment-1632[…] mentioned in my review of The Spinning Magnet: The Force That Created the Modern World – and Could Destroy It, this era of exploration was also when precise navigation became vital, spurring a race to study […]

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]]>By: Book review – Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/07/02/book-review-the-spinning-magnet-the-force-that-created-the-modern-world-and-could-destroy-it/comment-page-1/#comment-1287Tue, 25 Sep 2018 08:14:34 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1845#comment-1287[…] Future), the basics of geomagnetic reversals, spreading mid-ocean ridges, and plate tectonics (cf. The Spinning Magnet: The Force That Created the Modern World – and Could Destroy It and The Tectonic Plates are Moving!), the deep history of earth’s atmosphere and the increase […]

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]]>By: Book review – The Tectonic Plates are Moving! | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/07/02/book-review-the-spinning-magnet-the-force-that-created-the-modern-world-and-could-destroy-it/comment-page-1/#comment-1137Mon, 10 Sep 2018 08:11:49 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1845#comment-1137[…] the zebra-skin-like pattern of past magnetic polarity stored in spreading seabed (see my review of The Spinning Magnet: The Force That Created the Modern World – and Could Destroy It). The chain of events that led scientists to link this observation to others and suggest that the […]

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]]>By: Book review – Earth History and Palaeogeography | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/07/02/book-review-the-spinning-magnet-the-force-that-created-the-modern-world-and-could-destroy-it/comment-page-1/#comment-951Thu, 02 Aug 2018 12:58:51 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=1845#comment-951[…] book. This includes, amongst others, palaeomagnetism and polar reversals (see my recent review of The Spinning Magnet: The Force That Created the Modern World – and Could Destroy It for an introduction), past volcanic eruptions, geophysics and tomography (a technique to visualise […]

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