LATE TRIASSIC SEQUENCE OF PALEOGEOGRAPHIC MAPS ASSISTED BY THE GPMDB

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This work was designed in 2007 but abandoned for the same reason that today it is resumed. Determinant
for the interruption was the disappointment with the discovery that the global database of paleopoles (the
GPMDB) started by Van der Voo and McElhinny (Van der Voo & McElhinny, 1989; but with precursors such
as: Piper, 1988; Westphal, 1989 ), continued by McElhinny and Lock (McElhinny & Lock, 1990; Lock &
McElhinny, 1991), and later by Pisarevsky (Pisarevsky & McElhinny, 2003, Pisarevsky, 2005), had been
suspended by the latter in 2005 due to failure renewal of the disbursement of funding dedicated to the
project by the academic institutions involved. Today it is judged that being able to reach any original
results, however based on those incomplete data, could be an encouragement to the recovery of the
enrichment of the GPMDB with the addition of data produced from 2004 to 2018 and beyond.

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