polar wander

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polar wander

(Earth Sciences / Geological Science) Geology the movement of the earth's magnetic poles with respect to the geographic poles

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No references found			This strange phenomenon, called "true polar wander," would normally take millions of years to play out. Slip-sliding away by Gaidos, Susan / Science News for Kids Perron even suggests that the formation of an ocean on Mars could itself have triggered polar wander. Shifting ocean: tipsy Mars may explain undulating shoreline by Cowen, Ron / Science News According to the new hypothesis, the same kind of true polar wander occurred during the Cambrian. When Earth tipped, life went wild by Monastersky, Richard / Science News			Polar circles Polar clock polar coordinate polar coordinate system polar coordinates Polar dial polar distance polar equation Polar equation of a line Polar forces polar front polar glacier polar hare polar lights polar nucleus polar opposite polar opposition polar orbit polar plot Polar projection polar region Polar Regions polar sequence Polar spherical triangle polar star polar wander Polar whale polar zone Polarchy Polari Polaric Polarily polarimeter polarimetry Polaris polarisation polariscope Polariscopic Polariscopy polarise Polaristic polarity Polarizable polarization polarize polarizer polarizing microscope polarographic polarography Polaroid Polaroid camera			Polar Submembranous Aggregate of Spectrin polar subnormal Polar Subsurface Sounder polar subtangent Polar Sun Synchronous Launching Vehicle Polar sun synchronous orbit Polar sun synchronous orbit Polar surface area Polar Surface Layer polar symmetry Polar system polar tangent polar telescope polar timing diagram Polar topology polar transmission polar triangle polar trough Polar Tube Polar Tube Protein 1 Polar Tuberculoid Polar Urals polar variation Polar vector Polar vortex polar wander Polar Wandering Polar Wandering Polar Water Accessible Surface Area polar westerlies Polar whale Polar winter Polar wolf polar zone Polar-bear Polar-bear polar-cap absorption polar-cap ice polar-class icebreaker polar-coordinate navigation system polar-easterlies index polar-front theory Polar-Orbiting Earth Mission Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite polar-reciprocal curves polar-reciprocal triangles Polaramine Polarbear Polarbear Polarchy PolarFlight Research Forum Polargeek's Internet Relay Chat Hack Polari

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