Hawaiian hot spot study uncovers evidence of true polar wander

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Oct 7, 2026, 5:40 pm64 ptsTrending
On Earth, everything is moving. The planet spins, the tectonic plates shift and the spin axis wobbles, as do the magnetic poles, which makes determining how things move a rather tricky proposition. For Rice University's Richard Gordon, this problem came up when he was trying to understand the history of the…

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