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The history of observations of periodic and secular motion of the Earth’s rotation pole relative to a geographic frame of reference, and of theoretical attempts to account for the dynamical characteristics of the several modes of polar motion, is summarized through 1968.
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Rochester, M.G. (1970). Polar Wobble and Drift: A Brief History. In: Mansinha, L., Smylie, D.E., Beck, A.E. (eds) Earthquake Displacement Fields and the Rotation of the Earth. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 20. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-3308-4_1
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