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Subject: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?
From: george.herbert at gmail.com (George Herbert)
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 10:46:56 -0700
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On Jul 5, 2012, at 8:14 AM, Marshall Eubanks <marshall.eubanks at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> And, by the way, the deformations and exchanges of angular momentum
> that drive Earth rotation variations are probably the best understood
> global geophysical processes there are.  Absolutely no magic is
> required.

Not the tectonic ones.  The deeper geophysical ones yes, but tectonics is irregular.  We understand the underlying plate segment motions well but they express very irregularly over year-decade scales.

George William Herbert
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  - From: marshall.eubanks at gmail.com (Marshall Eubanks)

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