Diagram of Earth's Interior and the Movement of Magnetic North (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Diagram of Earth's Interior and the Movement of Magnetic North

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A schematic diagram of Earth's interior and the movement of magnetic north from 1900 to 1996. The outer core is the source of the geomagnetic field.

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Dixon Rohr

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