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Journal of the Geological Society; 2006; v. 163; issue.5; p. 753-759;
DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492005-126
© 2006 Geological Society of London

Original Article

Was Baltica right-way-up or upside-down in the Neoproterozoic?

Peter A. Cawood & Sergei A. Pisarevsky

Tectonics Special Research Centre, School of Earth and Geographical Sciences, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia (e-mail: pcawood@tsrc.uwa.edu.au)

Baltica is a progeny of Rodinia, born from the breakup of the supercontinent in the Neoproterozoic. Within Rodinia, Baltica is generally placed adjacent to NE Laurentia but in a variety of configurations, which vary by up to 3000 km along the strike of the Laurentian margin and include both right-way-up and upside-down orientations (current coordinates). Geological and palaeomagnetic data show that the only viable reconstruction juxtaposes the western Scandinavian margin of Baltica, in its right-way-up orientation, against the Rockall–Scotland–SE Greenland segment of Laurentia.




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