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There has been a growing awareness that the earth's rotation may bear significantly on the causes and nature of global structures. The sun, Jupiter, and Saturn display differential rotation between the equator and the poles. On the sun at least, this is distributed zonally with distortion and shearing occurring at the zonal boundaries (zonal rotation). If this is characteristic of rotating, spherical, fluid bodies and if the mantle is fluidlike, then differential rotation may occur within it. This could account for an "eastward-flowing mainstream" flowing faster in lower latitudes and for many global structures. An experimental model demonstrates that there may be higher angular velocities in low latitudes in a rotating, fluid-filled, rigid sphere.
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