Paleomagnetic results from the Lower Devonian Llandstadwell Formation, Dyfed, Wales
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Steams, C. and Van der Voo, R., 1987. Paleomagnetic results from the Lower Devonian Llandstadwell Formation, Dyfed, Wales. Tectonophysics, 143: 329-334. A paleomagnetic investigation of the Lower Devonian Llandstadwell Eormation in southwest Wales has yielded a characteristic direction (declination = 196’. inclination = 5’) that passes a fold test. Comparison of the corresponding virtual geomagnetic pole (334O E, 39OS) to previously published poles for Great Britain indicates that the magnetization is secondary and likely to be of Carboniferous age. No evidence for post-Herr&an rotation of Pembrokeshire is indicated by our data.
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