450 - 440 million years ago a ~50˚ True Polar Wander event swept Gondwana across the South Pole, triggering glaciation and the second most lethal of the “Big Five” mass extinctions, the end-Ordovician mass extinction nature.com Submitted by GeoGeoGeoGeo t3_101xgio on January 3, 2023 at 3:58 AM in science 19 comments 847
routerg0d t1_j2ulgax wrote on January 4, 2023 at 1:27 AM Wonder how this would impact mantle plumes. Generally I’d think this could enhance volcanism and seismic events through stresses. Permalink 1
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