The Earth's Variable Rotation: Geophysical Causes And Consequences
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| Originally published | June 12, 1980 |
| Authors | Kurt Lambeck |
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| ID | 2024948 |
About The Earth's Variable Rotation: Geophysical Causes And Consequences
Astronomers have long noted that the Earth does not rotate uniformly about an axis fixed in the planet, that both the length-of-day and the direction of the rotation axis vary periodically and irregularly by small amounts. These variations are an immediate consequence of the Earth not being a rigid body. . . .