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THE Pacific plate has undergone a substantial northward displacement during the late Mesozoic and the Cainozoic. Here we give additional documentation for such motion based on palaeomagnetic measurements of a sequence of sedimentary and basalt samples collected from middle Oligocene to Aptian sections of Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) site 289 (ref. 1; 00° 29.92′S, 158° 30.69′E) drilled on the Ontong Java Plateau.
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HAMMOND, S., KROENKE, L., THEYER, F. et al. Late Cretaceous and Palaeogene palaeolatitudes of the Ontong Java Plateau. Nature 255, 46–47 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1038/255046a0
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