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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 November 2016

Trond H. Torsvik  and
L. Robin M. Cocks
Trond H. Torsvik
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Universitetet i Oslo
L. Robin M. Cocks
Affiliation:
Natural History Museum, London
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Earth History and Palaeogeography , pp. 293 - 310
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