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    1) A dramatic climate change from temperate to arid conditions around 174-157 million years ago likely led to the demise of a large group of plants and animals in northeastern China called the Yanliao biology. 2) A new study suggests this climate shift may have been caused by an event called true polar wander, where the entire earth's surface rotated approximately 25 degrees, moving the landscape from a cool and humid zone to a hot and dry zone. 3) True polar wander occurs when mass imbalances within the earth cause the surface and mantle to rotate around the stable core. The exact causes of large shifts remain unclear but may involve redistributions of mass within the earth from events like the formation of

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    1) A dramatic climate change from temperate to arid conditions around 174-157 million years ago likely led to the demise of a large group of plants and animals in northeastern China called the Yanliao biology. 2) A new study suggests this climate shift may have been caused by an event called true polar wander, where the entire earth's surface rotated approximately 25 degrees, moving the landscape from a cool and humid zone to a hot and dry zone. 3) True polar wander occurs when mass imbalances within the earth cause the surface and mantle to rotate around the stable core. The exact causes of large shifts remain unclear but may involve redistributions of mass within the earth from events like the formation of

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    1) A dramatic climate change from temperate to arid conditions around 174-157 million years ago likely led to the demise of a large group of plants and animals in northeastern China called the Yanliao biology. 2) A new study suggests this climate shift may have been caused by an event called true polar wander, where the entire earth's surface rotated approximately 25 degrees, moving the landscape from a cool and humid zone to a hot and dry zone. 3) True polar wander occurs when mass imbalances within the earth cause the surface and mantle to rotate around the stable core. The exact causes of large shifts remain unclear but may involve redistributions of mass within the earth from events like the formation of

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    ancient rocky lurch was a part of a development referred to as true polar wander, within which
    the uppermost layers of the earth, possible all the method all the way down to the liquid outer
    core, rotate considerably when Earth continues its daily circle its usual spin axis.

    More than one hundred sixty million years ago, northeastern China was home to a large
    array of plants and animals referred to as the Yanliao biology. A dramatic change in climate
    from temperate to arid conditions likely led to their demise. But what drove this shift has long
    been a mystery. Irving (2019) says, that a new study of paleomagnetic data from northeastern
    China suggests that between 174 and 157 million years ago, the Earth’s surface as a whole
    turned a lurching twenty five degrees, which might have moved the landscape underpopulated
    by the Yanliao biology from a cool, humid zone into a hot, dry band.

    How did this happen?

    This colossal change can be explained by true polar wander, which occurs when a mass
    imbalance causes the entire surface of Earth and its mantle to rotate around the core (Kent et
    al, 2006).

    If so, many questions linger. For one, it’s unclear precisely what drives such a large
    shift, an event that must involve some significant redistribution of our planet’s mass (Yi, et al
    2019). Perhaps the birth of subduction zones—regions where one tectonic plate drives under
    another—drives the wander, Boschman (2019) says. Or, it could be due to slabs that have
    already subducted breaking apart, which would then send pieces of crust sinking through the
    mantle, upsetting the planetary balance, Kent adds. For now, unraveling the many geological
    unknowns is all part of the intrigue.

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