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Palaeomagnetism shows the pattern of drift of Gondwanaland for the past 600 million years. There seem to have been at least four episodes of rapid drift, with little or no drift in between.
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BRIDEN, J. Recurrent Continental Drift of Gondwanaland. Nature 215, 1334–1339 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/2151334a0
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