Title: Polar wander analysis from paleomagnetic data
Abstract: Utilizing marine magnetic anomalies and paleomagnetic pole positions, paleogeographic maps were constructed for three time intervals back to the Early Cretaceous. From the maps lithospheric plate motions were calculated and these global displacement fields were analyzed to determine best-fitting rigid rotations, which then could be ascribed to true polar wander. The values so obtained are no larger than a few degrees and are within the magnitude of the uncertainties involved.
Publication Year: 1978
Publication Date: 1978-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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