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SARDINIA is situated about halfway between France and Italy in the Mediterranean. Geologists1–3 have suggested that Sardinia has not always been in this position, but was once much nearer to France. From that original position, it is suggested that the island drifted to its present location either before2 or after1 the Middle Tertiary. The palaeomagnetic method is suited, given fulfilment of several conditions, to test such a hypothesis because drifting of Sardinia in the manner geologists have suggested could not have occurred without an anticlockwise rotation of the island. Rotation should be detectable by comparing palaeomagnetic directions from Sardinia with directions from continental Europe. In this communication, palaeomagnetic data of sixty hand samples from Middle Tertiary volcanic rocks near Alghero are used for comparison.
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DE JONG, K., MANZONI, M. & ZIJDERVELD, J. Palaeomagnetism of the Alghero Trachyandesites. Nature 224, 67–69 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/224067a0
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