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THE position of the Devonian pole relative to Britain, was originally deduced from palaeomagnetic measurements on the Old Red Sandstone formation from S. Wales1. It was apparently confirmed later by measurements on many other Devonian formations from Europe and western Russia2. We label these poles “DI” in Table 1. Palaeomagnetic work on Devonian lavas from the Midland Valley of Scotland yields, however, a completely different pole3 which is labelled “DII” in Table 1 (ref. 4).
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CREER, K., EMBLETON, B. Devonian Palaeomagnetic Pole for Europe and N. America. Nature 214, 42–43 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/214042a0
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