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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

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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: 10.2475/05.2014.04
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