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A Ocean closure 7 8 B
A 8 and suturing of Divergence
9 continents 9
1 1 10 5 6
B 2 2 5 11 B 4 Rifting 10
3 13 3
3 4 12 14 Convergence
4 12 13 14 4
5 11 2 2 3 5 11
Rifting and 6 10 6 12 A + B
creation of Convergence A 7 11 13
ocean Divergence 8 9 1 1 8 9 10 14
B A Sutured continent
Single continent
Figure 3.15 Paleomagnetic signature of plate divergence and convergence (redrawn from Irving et al., 1974, by
permission of the American Geophysical Union. Copyright © 1974 American Geoplysical Union).
000 E
Ordovician 495 060 E
443
Equator Cambrian 352
545 Silurian
550 Devonian
417 Carboniferous
Carboniferous
30 S 290
Permian
Permian
60 S Triassic 248
Triassic
65 206 142
Cretaceous
Jurassic Cretaceous
Figure 3.16 APW path for Gondwana, based on the reconstruction of Lottes & Rowley (1990) (redrawn from Torsvik &
Van der Voo, 2002, with permission from Blackwell Publishing).
