Université de Fribourg

Reconstructions of the continents around the North Atlantic at about the 60th parallel

Torsvik, Trond H. ; Van der Voo, Rob ; Meert, Joseph G. ; Mosar, Jon ; Walderhaug, Harald J.

In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2001, vol. 187(1-2), p. 55

Late Carboniferous–Early Tertiary apparent polar wander (APW) paths (300–40 Ma) for North America and Europe have been tested in various reconstructions. These paths demonstrate that the 500 fathom Bullard et al. fit is excellent from Late Carboniferous to Late Triassic times, but the continental configuration in northern Pangea changed systematically between the Late Triassic (ca. 214 Ma)...