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Pub. Id: A106 (1969)

First Page: 919

Last Page: 930

Book Title: M 12: North Atlantic: Geology and Continental Drift

Article/Chapter: Continental-Drift Models and Correlation of Geologic Features Across North Atlantic Ocean: Chapter 63: Interpretations of Drift

Subject Group: Geologic History and Areal Geology

Spec. Pub. Type: Memoir

Pub. Year: 1969

Author(s): E. H. Timothy Whitten (2)

Abstract:

Most criteria used to substantiate the concept of continental drift rely on qualitative subjective interpretation and do not yield a statistically adequate proof that drift occurred across the North Atlantic Ocean. Specific variables could be used objectively to test the continental-drift model. Preferred variables are those that could establish (1) gradients parallel with a mobile belt (e.g., vectors defined by dissimilar rates of migration of fossil genera), (2) the intracratonic nature of the Caledonian and Appalachian mobile belts, and (3) the geometric separation of intersecting mobile belts.

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