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The evidence for Earth's magnetic pole reversals comes from the Geological record. If you look at the fossil polarity of a section of sea floor taken across and to either side of a mid oceanic ridge, there is a mirror pattern of stripes where the rocks have reversed polar directions.

Similarly the poles of the Sun reverse every 11 years as the sun goes through a maxima and minima.

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