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The unlikelihood of an expanding Earth - L. C. King 1983. Wandering Continents and Spreading Sea Floors on an Expanding Earth. xi + 232 p. John Wiley & Sons. Price £15.75. ISBN 0 471 90156 3. - H. G. Owen 1983. Atlas of Continental Displacement, 200 Million Years to the Present. x + 159 p. Cambridge University Press. Price £15.00. ISBN 0 521 25817 0.

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A. Hallam
A. Hallam
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Department of Geological Sciences, University of Birmingham, P.O. Box 363, Birmingham B15 2TT
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Geological Magazine , Volume 121 , Issue 6 , November 1984 , pp. 653 - 655
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