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THE early palæomagnetic studies have largely been confined to the northern hemisphere, where wide sampling of the geological column in Great Britain and North America has done much to establish the reality of polar wandering. Runcorn1 has also suggested, on the basis of a comparison of the British and American results, that a westward drift of some 24° would account for the systematic difference he has found in the results.
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Runcorn, S. K., Trans. Amer. Geophys. Un., 35, 49 (1954).
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NAIRN, A. Relevance of Palæomagnetic Studies of Jurassic Rocks to Continental Drift. Nature 178, 935–936 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/178935b0
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