what do you mean by rapid reversals?
here's a timeline of magnetic reversals going back 4 million years:
normal = today's polarity, ie magnetic north is with geographic north
reversed = opposite polarity, ie MN is with GS
chron = division of reversals, like era, period, and eon for geologic time scale. these are long lived (ie, 1 millionish years)
subchron = a short-lived (200,000 years) reversal occuring inside of another chron
Brunhes normal chron = 700,000 ya to present
Matayuma reversed chron = 2.5 mya to 700,000 ya
jaramillo normla subchron = 1 mya to .9 mya
olduvai normal subchron = 2 mya to 1.85ish mya
Gauss normal chron = 3.3 mya to 2.5 mya
Mammoth reversed subchron = 3.05 mya to 3 mya
Gilbert reversed chron = 4 mya* to 3.3 mya
*my graph stops at 4 mya, so I don't know how much older it is.
you'll note that even the short lived chrons in this graph are 200,000 years old.
also, these magnetic stripes form from lava flows. When igneous rock solidifies, any magnetic rocks trapped inside have their polarization frozen. This polarization cannot change unless the rock is completely melted again.
tell me, how the hell can a flood that lasted no more than a year change the polarity of the earth's polarity at least 7 times? how can the igneous rock cool quickly enough? (in the atlantic ocean, it takes hundreds upon thousands of years for igneous rock to cool appreciably). Never mind that, but how do you explain the formation of a huge chunk of the atlantic ocean in such a short time (seeing as how it's built out of what are essentially lava flows, and these flows outpour very slowly). At the same time, you're gonna have to explain how the pacific ocean shrunk by the same amount in a single year.
while, I might add, keeping noah alive, or else, bye-bye man.
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