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Magnetic profiles parallel to and between fracture zones in the Cretaceous western Atlantic suggest at least twenty-five reversals between 135 and 90 m.y. BP, with a long normal period between 80 and 90 m.y. BP. The fracture zones constrain the position of the America–Africa pole.
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VOGT, P., JOHNSON, G. Cretaceous Seafloor Spreading in the Western North Atlantic. Nature 234, 22–25 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/234022a0
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