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English: Figure 0.9. A general view of the dispositions of the landmasses of the North Atlantic during the Palaeozoic. In Cambrian times the dispersed continental blocks we see today were assembled into the single large continent of Laurentia. The southern margin (i.e. south with respect to the present pole) was a large passive margin seqence (see Figure 0.5) which included the Cambrian rocks of the NW Highlands. By Ordovican times this whole southern continental margin of Laurentia became destructive and took on the characteristics which resemble the present-day western Pacific. To the south of it lay the Iapetus Ocean, on the other side of which lay continents such as Baltica (roughly including Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark) and Gondwana (which also included southern Britain and central and southern Europe).
From: Lawson, J.D. and Weedon, D.S. (editors). 1992. Geological excursions around Glasgow & Girvan. Glasgow : Geological Society of Glasgow.
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