Paleomagnetic Results from Europe

The results of investigations on a variety of late Paleozoic and Mesozoic rocks from western Europe are described and are incorporated with results already published predominantly from Great Britain. Mean pole positions have been obtained from the Triassic, Permian, and Devonian periods, for which numerous results are available. The angular distance between the mean Triassic pole and a similar American pole lends force to the separation of the two continents, while the greater separation of Permian poles implies that separation commenced in earlier times. Because of the problems, still unresolved, of the European Carboniferous, this drift history cannot as yet be checked in earlier times.