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Global Plate Tectonics and the Secular Motion of the Pole

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

Tomás Soler  and
Ivan I. Mueller
Tomás Soler
Affiliation:
Department of Geodetic Science, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43202
Ivan I. Mueller
Affiliation:
Department of Geodetic Science, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43202

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Analysis of astronomical observations recorded during the last 75 years by international services (ILS-IPMS, BIH) in charge of providing the coordinates of the instantaneous pole conclusively proves a persistent drift of the “mean pole” (≡barycenter of the wobble). A study was undertaken with the specific objective of investigating the possibility of a true secular motion of the barycenter, that is, an actual displacement of the Earth's pole of figure. Geophysical hypotheses available to explain the astronomically-observed drift of the “mean pole” suggest changes in the Earth's second-order inertia tensor as a plausible cause.

Type
Session V
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 78: Nutation and the Earth's Rotation , 1980 , pp. 243 - 244
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1980 

References

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