Articles | Volume 10, issue 4/5
https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-10-437-2003
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31 Oct 2003
31 Oct 2003
On the Earth’s magnetic field and the Hall effect
Abstract. 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.
