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True polar wander and supercontinent cycles: Implications for lithospheric elasticity and the triaxial earth

Ross Nelson Mitchell
American Journal of Science May 2014, 314 (5) 966-979; DOI: https://doi.org/10.2475/05.2014.04
Ross Nelson Mitchell
* Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology 170-25, 1200 East California Boulevard, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
** Department of Geology and Geophysics, 210 Whitney Avenue, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06511 USA;
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  • True polar wander (TPW)
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  • supercontinents
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  • triaxial Earth
  • lithosphere

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