FAST-TRACK PAPER: A sea-level test for inertial interchange true polar wander events

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Mar 1999

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1999geoji.136f...5m&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Journal International, Volume 136, Issue 3, pp. F5-F10.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Cambrian, Earth Model, Polar Wander, Sea Level

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The possibility of inertial interchange true polar wander (IITPW) events, in which the rotation pole moves 90° with respect to the solid Earth in a matter of ~10 Myr, has been discussed in the geophysical literature for more than three decades. Recent evidence for an IITPW event in Early Cambrian time has renewed interest in the issue; however, the veracity of supporting palaeomagnetic evidence remains a matter of significant debate. We propose that sea-level variations driven by polar wander provide an important independent test for the occurrence of IITPW events. Our numerical simulations of the response of a viscoelastic planet to an IITPW-induced forcing predict sea-level changes of up to 200 m, depending on the details of the earth model, the location of the site relative to the rotation path and the elapsed time for the reorientation of the pole. A preliminary comparison of our predictions to Early-Middle Cambrian sea-level records for Australia, Laurentia and Baltica shows qualitative agreement. This comparison suggests that a definitive test for the Cambrian IITPW hypothesis is possible given a sufficiently accurate, and globally distributed, database of sea-level histories.

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