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Posted by Jonathan Silverlight on January 3, 2006, 4:31 am
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>kevin.kirby@gmail.com writes
>>It was written, somewhere, that an early polar location can be found in
>>the desert regions of Northern Africa.
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>>Does anyone have links to source material or documentation for this
>>find?
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>>Is there a guess as to where the former, opposite geographic pole had
>>been located?
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>With contential drift, the poles have been pretty much all over the
>place. We're talking over hundreds of millions of years time periods.
Strictly speaking, the land mass at the poles wander around. I don't
think the pole of rotation varies much except by precession and so on,
but you might look up "true polar wander".
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