In reality, the relative polar movement can either be polar wandering or continental drift ( or a combination of both ).
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Paleomagnetic evidence, both reversals and polar wandering data, led the revival of the theories of continental drift and its transformation into plate tectonics in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Sager and Koppers make no such extravagant claims for their new scenario for polar wandering, but they do say that their magnetic evidence from 27 long-vanished undersea volcanoes in the Pacific Ocean is persuasive.