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J. TUZO WILSON has discussed the history of the North Atlantic region1. Regarding the earliest history he proposes that “From the Late Pre-Cambrian to the close of Middle Ordovician time an open ocean existed in approximately, but not precisely, the same location as the present North Atlantic”, and “From the Upper Ordovician to Carboniferous time, this ocean closed by stages”. His proposal is mainly based on faunal provinces. Island arcs probably lay along the North American and Greenland coast.
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HERNES, I. History of the Atlantic Ocean and the Scandinavian Caledonian Chain. Nature 212, 911–912 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/212911a0
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