Dynamics of True Polar Wander (TPW)
The dynamics of TPW was studied as part of my Ph.D. thesis supervised by Richard J. O'Connell. The figure is a color version of the most important results from our 1997 paper. More recent work has been carried out in collaboration with Trond Torsvik.

• Steinberger, B. and R.J. O'Connell (1997). Changes of the Earth's rotation axis owing to advection of mantle density heterogeneities, Nature, 387, 169-173, doi:10.1038/387169a0 [abstract and color version of Figure 1] [pdf] [corrections] [N&V]
• Steinberger, B. and R.J. O'Connell (2002). The convective mantle flow signal in rates of true polar wander, in Ice Sheets, Sea Level and the Dynamic Earth, Geodyn. Ser., 29, ed. Mitrovica, J. X., and L. L. A. Vermeersen, AGU, Washington, DC., 233-256. [abstract] [pdf] [Figure 9, corrected] [Figure 10, corrected]
• Steinberger, B. and T. H. Torsvik (2010), Toward an explanation for the present and past locations of the poles, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., Q06W06, doi:10.1029/2009GC002889 [pdf]

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