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Open University
Milton Keynes, U.K.
N.F. Hurley, R. Van der Voo, "Magnetostratigraphy, Late Devonian iridium anomaly, and impact hypotheses," Geology, 18, 291-4, April 1990. (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
A. Hynes, "Two-stage rifting of Pangea by two different mechanisms," Geology, 18, 323-6, April 1990. (McGill University, Montreal, Quebec)
C. DeMets, R.G. Gordon, D.F. Argus, S. Stein, "Current plate motions," Geophysical Journal International, 101, 425-78, ...
