Apparent and true polar wander and the geometry of the geomagnetic field over the last 200 Myr

By J. Besse, V. Courtillot. 2002

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Geophysics, Molecular Biology

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New Age Constraints for the Salamanca Formation and Lower Río Chico Group in the Western San Jorge Basin, Patagonia, Argentina: Implications for Cretaceous-Paleogene Extinction Recovery and Land Mammal Age Correlations (2014, background): “…of 36.5°/–84.5° (α95 = 6.3°) calculated from site virtual geomagnetic pole results from this study overlaps the 65 Ma pole for South America (13.7°/–82.0°, α95 = 3.6°; Besse and Courtillot, 2002), further supporting the primary nature of the remanent magnetizations in these samples.”
Present-Day Sea Level Change: Observations and Causes (2003, background): “…be excluded that present-day true polar wander partly results from totally different phenomena such as imperfectly compensated tectonic plate motions, mantle convection, and mantle avalanches across the lower mantle over geological time [e.g., Richards et al., 1999; Besse and Courtillot, 2002].”
On the uncertainties in hot spot reconstructions and the significance of moving hot spot reference frames (2005, background): “[11] For example, paleomagnetic measurements have their own inherent uncertainties [McElhinny and McFadden, 1999], and observed changes in paleolatitudes may be due partly to true polar wander [Besse and Courtillot, 2002; O’Neill et al., 2003].”
Convective patterns under the Indo-Atlantic « box » (2005, result): “At the scale we are working on, reconstructions based on the 1991 paper are not as significantly different from a later model [ 78 ] that they can alter our present conclusions.”
The Magnetic Field of Planet Earth (2010, background): “In fact these constraints further suggest that on average over the past 200 My, some G 0 2 is also present, on order of 3% of G 0 1 (Besse and Courtillot 2002; Courtillot and Besse 2004).”
Greater India Basin hypothesis and a two-stage Cenozoic collision between India and Asia (2012, methodology): “From north to south, these include the non- to low-metamorphic grade sedimentary rocks of the Tibetan Himalaya, separated by the South Tibetan detachment from the igneous and high-grade metamorphic Greater Himalaya, which overlies the low-grade, internally thrusted Lesser Himalaya along the Main Cen”