Late Cretaceous True Polar Wander: Not So Fast
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Late cretaceous true polar wander: not so fast.
Using recalculated paleopoles from seamount anomaly modeling (SAM), Sager and Koppers (1) proposed an episode of rapid Late Cretaceous true polar wander (TPW). A critical review of the data used, however, suggests that Sager and Koppers have underestimated the effects that errors and data selection have on inferences of TPW and that they may not have adequately taken into account alternative ex...
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عنوان ژورنال: Science
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0036-8075,1095-9203
DOI: 10.1126/science.288.5475.2283a