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but rather to its toppling over through 18oO. Regarding the pole positions obtained
from the Turkmenian work it is of interest that the north pole for the Plio-Pleisto-
cene has the co-ordinates 75 N, 122 W. This revives the opinion once held that a
polar displacement towards North America was necessary to explain the assymetry
of the Pleistocene glaciation. Similar effects should, but have not turned up in
work elsewhere, but this could be due to inadequate correlations and the limited
data.
The work in European Russia is notable chiefly for studies of the Permian
classical sections in the eastern Urals. Except for the highest levels of the Permian
(the Tartarian which could in part be Lower Triassic) the directions are all
M. B. Dobrin
(2nd edition, 1960, 446 pp., McGraw-Hill, 745.)