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Closing of the Protocadic Ocean and intraplate basins

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THE presence of several long-lived, deeply subsiding basins, autogeosynclines1, such as those in Michigan, Illinois, North Kansas and Williston suggests that the North American craton or plate remained in a constant position relative to the underlying mantle during the Palaeozoic.

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KAY, M. Closing of the Protocadic Ocean and intraplate basins. Nature 249, 751–752 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/249751b0

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