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Polar Wandering and Mantle Convection
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 June 2016
Abstract
According to the mantle convection theory, mantle materials come up to the surface of the Earth at the mid-oceanic ridge system, go off in two horizontal directions, and finally at the trench and orogenic belt system they return to the interior of the Earth. We assume no return flow in the deeper part of the mantle and calculate the change of products of inertia of the Earth due to the above mass transfer. The polar wandering thus calculated is towards the direction of about 90° east and its absolute value is about 0.9 × 10−2 s/yr.
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- Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 48: Rotation of the Earth , 1972 , pp. 212 - 214
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- Copyright © Reidel 1972
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