Path of the South Pole across Gondwanaland

The apparent path of the North Pole derived from remnant magnetization of European and American rocks. Time is indicated by geological era:

Ca = Cambrian (570 million years BP)

S = Silurian (440 million years BP)

D = Devonian (395 million years BP)

C = Carboniferous (345 million years BP)

P = Permian (280 million years BP)

T = Triassic (225 million years BP)

J = Jurassic (190 million years BP)

K = Cretaceous (136 million years BP)

E = Eocene (54 million years BP)

References

Figure from Levin, H. L. (1994) The Earth through Time 4th ed. Saunders College Publishing, Fort Worth.

Geological eras from Hallam, A. (1973) A revolution in the Earth sciences. Clarendon Press, Oxford.

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