Articles | Volume 10, issue 4/5
https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-10-437-2003
https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-10-437-2003
31 Oct 2003
 | 31 Oct 2003

On the Earth’s magnetic field and the Hall effect

J. E. Allen

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.