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Comparison of plume traces with palaeomagnetic data from lithospheric plates for the past 50 m.y. suggests that the mantle has rolled about its own independent axis within an outer lithospheric shell which as a whole is fixed in respect to the Earth's spin axis.
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HARGRAVES, R., DUNCAN, R. Does the Mantle Roll?. Nature 245, 361–363 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/245361a0
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