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PRONUNCIATION OF POLAR WANDER

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF POLAR WANDER

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Polar wander is a noun.
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WHAT DOES POLAR WANDER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

polar wander

Polar wander

Polar wander is the motion of a pole in relation to a fixed reference frame. It can be used, for example, to measure the degree to which Earth's magnetic poles have been observed to move relative to the Earth's rotation axis. It is also possible to use continents as a static entity and observe the relative motion of the magnetic pole on the different continents; by doing so, the relative motion of those two continents to each other can be observed over geologic time.

Definition of polar wander in the English dictionary

The definition of polar wander in the dictionary is the movement of the earth's magnetic poles with respect to the geographic poles.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE POLAR WANDER

polar axis
polar bear
polar body
polar circle
polar coordinates
polar distance
polar equation
polar front
polar lights
polar orbit
polar sequence
polar vector
polar zenithal
Polari
polarimeter
polarimetric
polarimetry
Polaris
polarisable
polarisation

WORDS THAT END LIKE POLAR WANDER

Alexander
Channel Islander
commander
coriander
demander
expander
finder
gander
Highlander
Hollander
islander
lander
Leander
outlander
overlander
Prince Edward Islander
salamander
sander
Santander
wander
zander

Synonyms and antonyms of polar wander in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «polar wander» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF POLAR WANDER

Find out the translation of polar wander to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of polar wander from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «polar wander» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

极移
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

desplazamiento polar
570 millions of speakers

English

polar wander
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

ध्रुवीय भटकना
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

يهيمون على وجوههم القطبي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

полярный блуждать
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

deriva polar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মেরু ভেক্টর
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

dérive des pôles
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Vektor kutub
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

polar wander
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

極移動
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

극성 방황
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Vektor kutub
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đi lang thang cực
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

துருவ திசையன்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ध्रुवीय व्हेक्टर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Polar vektör
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

wander polare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wędrować polarny
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

полярний блукати
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

rătăcesc polar
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πολική
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

pool dwaal
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

polär wander
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

polar vandre
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of polar wander

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «POLAR WANDER»

The term «polar wander» is used very little and occupies the 160.461 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «POLAR WANDER» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about polar wander

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POLAR WANDER»

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Plate Tectonics
(3) True polar wander. Ancient pole positions are generally illustrated by plotting an apparent polar wander path for a continent (or segment thereof) relative to its present position (Figure 1.22). It is referred to as an apparent polar wander path ...
Kent C. Condie, 1997
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Global Dynamics of the Earth: Applications of Normal Mode ...
THE CONCEPT OF TRUE POLAR WANDER (TPW) At the end of the 19th century the theoretically predicted wobbling of the Earth's rotation axis with respect to the Earth's surface was observed. Two periodic movements have in fact been ...
R. Sabadini, Bert Vermeersen, 2004
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Equal area projection of the apparent polar wander curve of Eurasia and the apparent polar wander curves for Africa. Numbers denote ages of the paleomagnetic poles in millions of years. The apparent polar wander curve of Eurasia (vertical ...
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Plates, Plumes, and Planetary Processes
91– 117, doi: 10.1130/2005.2388(07). Goldreich, P., and Toomre, A., 1969, Some remarks on polar wandering: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 74, p. 2555– 2567. Gordon, R.G., 1983, Late Cretaceous apparent polar wander path of the ...
Gillian R. Foulger, Donna M. Jurdy, 2007
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The Earth's Variable Rotation: Geophysical Causes and ...
11.1.1 Rotation of a quasi-rigid body Kelvin in 1863 apparently could see little objection to the polar wander hypothesis, the formation of the world's major mountains being sufficient to shift the Earth's inertia axis by some tens of degrees .
Kurt Lambeck, 2005
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Global Tectonics
Figure 3.13 Two methods of displaying paleomagnetic data: (a) assuming fixed magnetic poles and applying latitudinal shifts to the continent; (b) assuming a fixed continent and plotting a polar wander path. Subsequent work has modified the ...
Philip Kearey, Keith A. Klepeis, Frederick J. Vine, 2013
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Plate Tectonics: How It Works
The distinction between true polar wander and apparent polar wander is analogous to that between relative and absolute plate motion. To an observer on a plate moving toward the pole, it seems like the pole is moving toward the plate.
A. Cox, R. B. Hart, 2009
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The Continental Drift Controversy: Paleomagnetism and ...
They describe Irving's painstaking work on the Torridonian, the construction of the Cambridge magnetometer, Creer's fieldwork, and his construction of the first ( apparent) polar wander path. 2 Introducing the term “apparent polar wander” at ...
Henry R. Frankel, 2012
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Earth as an Evolving Planetary System
True polar wander. Ancient pole positions are generally plotted as apparent polar wander paths for a continent (or segment thereof) relative to its present position ( Figure 8.3). Apparent polar wander paths (or APW paths) may result from either ...
Kent C. Condie, 2011
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Europa – The Ocean Moon: Search For An Alien Biosphere
The non-uniform thickness of the ice might provide the excess regional mass to drive polar wander. Polar wander had also been considered by other previous studies. For example, in 1996 a study by Bill McKinnon and his student Andrew ...
Richard Greenberg, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «POLAR WANDER»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term polar wander is used in the context of the following news items.
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Book reviews: Life's Engines and A New History of Life
And "true polar wander" is characteristic of other planets, including Mars. But again, Ward and Kirschvink are pushing the envelope with this ... «The Australian Financial Review, Jul 15»
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Lopsided ice on the moon points to past shift in poles
Siegler and his colleagues have suggested a cause for the “polar wander”: a 3.5-billion-year-old hot spot beneath the moon's surface. «Science Now, Mar 15»
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LPSC 2015: First results from Dawn at Ceres: provisional place …
It could mean Ceres has lost a lot of near-surface volatiles due to impacts; or there has been true polar wander; or lots of dessication during an ... «The Planetary Society, Mar 15»
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The US has caused more global warming than any other country …
And then, there's the most mind-boggling effect of all — what Bamber calls “true polar wander.” Basically, moving this massive amount of ice off ... «Washington Post, Jan 15»
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How Greenland Got Its Glaciers
The northerly move was magnified by "true polar wander," when the Earth's outermost layers naturally tilt and change location. «Yahoo News, Jan 15»
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True Polar Wander: Why Greenland Ice Took So Long To Develop
C: Through true polar wander (green arrow) the Earth axis shifted, bringing Greenland even closer to the North pole (Figure by B. Steinberger, ... «Science 2.0, Jan 15»
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Piri Reis Map: Evidence of a Very Advanced Prehistoric Civilization?
True polar wander is generally held to occur at a rate of 1 degree per million years. But, 800 million years ago, it seems a 50-degree shift took ... «The Epoch Times, Dec 14»
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Did an impact knock the Moon on its side?
Although the Earth has experienced some degree of polar wander, the pole has always made a gradual track as the Earth's angular momentum ... «Ars Technica, May 14»
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Telerobotic Avatars On Mars With Super-Powers ("Teleporting" from …
But the Mars surface deforms a bit, depending on polar wander. After they took account of that they found out that it was actually all on a level, ... «Science 2.0, Oct 13»
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Polar wander linked to climate change
Polar wander linked to climate change. Melting ice in Greenland may have helped to shift the location of the North Pole. Richard A. Lovett. «Nature.com, May 13»

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