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apparent polar wander: a standalone construct

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Geophysics

the track of past paleomagnetic pole positions relative to a continent, recording plate motion and any true polar wander.

In geophysics, apparent polar wander refers to the track of past paleomagnetic pole positions relative to a continent, recording plate motion and any true polar wander. This meaning comes from Besse (2002) in Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth.[1]

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motion2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs plate1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct pole3 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs

References

Besse, J., & Courtillot, V. (2002). Apparent and true polar wander and the geometry of the geomagnetic field over the last 200 Myr. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 107(B11). https://doi.org/10.1029/2000jb000050

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