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
GeoGeoGeoGeo OP t1_j2twr06 wrote on January 3, 2023 at 10:38 PM Reply to comment by FranticPonE in 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 by GeoGeoGeoGeo Glad to hear it! There are so many things I still find mind blowing or hard to grasp in geology, it's such a fantastic field of study. TPW is also thought to have occurred on Mars as well^1, ^2 Permalink Parent 5
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