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Evidence of Rapid Polar Shift from the Palaeomagnetic Record of Eurasia

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A Mid-Devonian polar shift is shown to be consistent with Devonian palaeomagnetic data.

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EMBLETON, B. Evidence of Rapid Polar Shift from the Palaeomagnetic Record of Eurasia. Nature 222, 1036–1037 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/2221036a0

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