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Faunal Provinces and Palaeogeography
Devonian geography deduced by the Palaeomagnetic method
Abstract
An analysis of world wide palaeomagnetic data reveals similarities in the shapes of the Upper Palaeozoic parts of the polar wandering curves for the different continents. By superposition of corresponding parts of their polar wandering curves, the positions of the continents during the Upper Palaeozoic have been deduced.
The reconstruction consists of two supercontinents, (a) Europe + Western Russia + N. America, and (b) the present southern hemisphere continent + India, and is thus similar to earlier reconstructions based on geological evidence on which it is however completely independent.
The South Pole is shown to have wandered across these large land masses during the Upper Palaeozoic, and in the Devonian was situated in N.W. Africa. The North Pole must have been in middle of a large ocean.
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