1) Obsolete scientific theory
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Polflucht (from German, flight from the poles) is a geophysical concept invoked 1915 by Alfred Wegener to explain his ideas of Continental drift. He suggested that a differential gravitational force (horizontal component of centrifugal or Eötvös force) and the Earth`s flattening would cause continental masses to drift slowly towards the equator....
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