Polflucht
Sign in to savePolflucht (from German, flight from the poles) is a geophysical concept invoked in 1922 by Alfred Wegener to explain his ideas of continental drift.
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Polflucht (from German, flight from the poles) is a geophysical concept invoked in 1922 by Alfred Wegener to explain his ideas of continental drift.
The pole-flight force F_\mathrm{Pf} is that component of the centrifugal force during the rotation of the Earth that acts tangentially to the Earth's surface.
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