I’m finally getting back to the blog after about a week of frantic magnetometry (we discovered a bug in our magnetometer software, because of which we had to measure lots of stuff all over again!) and report-writing. Here is another in my reverse-color series on magnetic reversals.
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Reversals, Part 2
![Why do we call them magnetic reversals? Because the way some lavas are magnetized, Earth's magnetic NORTH pole would have had to be where the SOUTH pole currently is.](https://i1.wp.com/faculty.washington.edu/paselkin/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/sketch1425719884401.png?fit=800%2C1280&ssl=1)