New research discoveries were recently released advocating my findings of a natural sequence of events related to the Sun-Earth connection. My extended hypothesis suggests our galaxy 'Milky Way' plays a key role.
Increased Charged Particles --> Decreased Magnetic Field --> Increase Outer Core Convection --> Increase of Mantle Plumes --> Increase in Earthquake & Volcanoes --> Cools Mantle and Outer Core --> Return of Outer Core Convection (mitch battros 2012)
Recent discoveries suggest charged particles and their interplay with Earth's magnetic field has an effect far beneath the Earth's surface. Researcher Denis Andrault, a mineral physicist at Blaise Pascal University, whose work was recently published in the scientific journal 'Nature', shows hotspots form suggests that narrow streams of hot rock with large, mushroom-like heads known as mantle plumes push up from deep within the Earth.
The deepest are thought to rise from near the Earth's core and up through more than 1,800 miles of the Earth's mantle layer, pumping gigantic amounts of heat upward.
Some geologists have argued that the Iceland originated from a mysterious cluster of heat far beneath the Pacific Ocean. As the Pacific plate drifted over this mantle plume, volcanoes arose on the ocean floor that eventually grew to become islands rising above the ocean surface.
To see whether mantle plumes might actually be the cause of volcanic hotspots, scientists used lab experiments to recreate the extreme conditions at the core-mantle boundary to see what material from that region could rise through hundreds of miles of rock.
"It is impossible to drill a hole of even 20 kilometers (12 miles) into the Earth, so we have to recreate it in the laboratory," Andrault said.
The investigators started with tiny bits of rock up to 10 times thinner than a human hair. They compressed these specks of dust between the tips of two cone-shaped diamonds under extraordinary pressures of up to 120 giga-pascals, more than 1,000 times the pressure found at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the deepest point in the ocean. A laser beam then heated these samples to temperatures between 5,400 and 7,200 degrees Fahrenheit.
"Those extreme conditions of pressure and temperature is like traveling into the very deep Earth," Andrault said.
The researchers next used the most brilliant beams of X-rays in the world at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble, France, focused to spots just a micron wide - a hundredth the diameter of a human hair - to scan these samples. The X-ray analysis revealed the iron content of the molten and solid parts of these specks.
"It is the iron content which is decisive for the density of molten rock at the core-mantle boundary," Andrault said. "It's accurate knowledge allowed us to determine that molten rock under these conditions is actually lighter than solid."
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