Continent turned inside out.

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  • Author(s): Bowler, Sue
  • Source:
    New Scientist. 6/15/91, Vol. 130 Issue 1773, p23. 1/3p. 2 Illustrations, 2 Maps.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      GEOLOGY; HOFFMAN, Paul; GEOLOGICAL surveys; CRUST of the earth; CONTINENTAL drift
    • Abstract:
      Reveals that a Canadian geologist has linked geological and climatic upheavals that occurred around 600 million years ago to shifts in the Earth's surface that turned a supercontinent inside out. Paul Hoffman of the Geological Survey of Canada in Ottawa; Comparison of the geological evolution of the edges of continents and mountain belts; Speculative reconstruction.