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Wegener's South America–Africa Assembly, Fit or Misfit?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

S. Warren Carey
S. Warren Carey
Affiliation:
Geology Department, University of Tasmania, Hobart.
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Abstract

A statement by Jeffreys that the Wegener fit of South America and Africa is a misfit of 15° has been widely quoted and accepted. However, careful check by any rigorous method will show that these continents do in fact fit together as precisely as their forms can be defined. Whether continental drift be true or false, this argument against it must be abandoned.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 92 , Issue 3 , June 1955 , pp. 196 - 200
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1955

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