Evidence for a 20° tilting of the Earth's rotation axis 110 million years ago

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 179, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 517-528

  Prévot, Michel ^a,b   Mattern, Estelle ^a   Camps, Pierre ^a   Daignières, Marc ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

Convection; Earth; Mantle; Paleomagnetism; Polar wandering; Rotation

Indexed keywords

MANTLE CHEMISTRY; PALEOMAGNETISM; PLANETARY ROTATION; POLAR WANDERING; TILT;

EID: 0040934162     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0012-821x(00)00129-1     Document Type: Article

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