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A simple model has been made of the opening of the Atlantic Ocean, based on a geometrical reconstruction, the stages of which have been dated by palaeontological methods.
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FUNNELL, B., SMITH, A. Opening of the Atlantic Ocean. Nature 219, 1328–1333 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/2191328a0
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