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Probable Non-synchroneity of Late Precambrian Glaciations

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THE palaeomagnetic confirmation1,2 of King's suggestion3 that the area affected by Upper Palaeozoic glaciation in Gondwanaland changed its position with time is important in itself, and geological arguments substantiating this change have been given in detail4. A further impressive relationship has been established between a pole position for the Ordovician5 and previously discovered evidence of a continental glaciation in North-West Africa during the Late Ordovician and Early Silurian6–8. Thus the Palaeozoic polar wander curve for the African continent5 is in good agreement with the geological evidence for progressive shifts in the centres of glaciation (presumably polar) during the Palaeozoic.

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CRAWFORD, A., DAILY, B. Probable Non-synchroneity of Late Precambrian Glaciations. Nature 230, 111–112 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/230111a0

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