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Proterozoic transcurrent tectonics: palaeomagnetic evidence from Venezuela and Africa

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Comparison of palaeomagnetic poles from the Guayana Shield with the published Precambrian palaeomagnetic record for Africa suggests that large-scale (thousands of kilometres) transcurrent motions have occurred along Upper Proterozoic mobile belts in South America and Africa. Displacements of such magnitude are consistent with a transform model for Precambrian mobile belts.

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Onstott, T., Hargraves, R. Proterozoic transcurrent tectonics: palaeomagnetic evidence from Venezuela and Africa. Nature 289, 131–136 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1038/289131a0

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