On the Earth?s magnetic field and the Hall effect

J. E. Allen (1)

1 University College

In a recent paper de Paor put forward a new theory of the Earth's magnetic field that depended on the Hall effect as an energy transfer mechanism. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that the mechanism invoked is unimportant except in certain gaseous plasmas.

Domaines: Cosmologie et astrophysique extra-galactique [astro-ph.CO]; Astrophysique [astro-ph]; Sciences de la Terre

J. E. Allen. On the Earth?s magnetic field and the Hall effect. Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, 2003, 10 (4/5), pp.437-440. ⟨hal-00299799⟩