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Science 12 September 1997:
Vol. 277. no. 5332, p. 1608
DOI: 10.1126/science.277.5332.1608
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EARTH SCIENCE:
More Signs of a Far-Traveled West

Richard A. Kerr

For 2 decades, earth scientists have argued over evidence that chunks of North America's western edge may have migrated thousands of kilometers northward to their present positions. Now, as a paper in this issue reports, exquisitely preserved marine fossils from near Vancouver Island are providing a key test of the evidence, which consists of traces of ancient magnetism in the fossil-laden rock. The researchers' verdict: Seventy million years ago, Vancouver Island was at the latitude of Baja California, thousands of kilometers to the south.

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