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Table 2

Predicted directions at 45N and 7E for stable Europe versus time. A: Synthetic APWP (Besse and Courtillot, 2002), B: APWP results from post-filtering process and spline regression analysis (Schettino and Scotese, 2005) and C: APWP from Torsvik et al. (2012)).

A Expected direction 2002 “Synthétique” APWP

Age in Ma Dec Inc a95 dDec dInc
0 0.6 60.7 2.0 4.0 2.6
5 1.3 60.5 1.7 3.5 2.2
10 3.4 59.8 2.1 4.1 2.7
15 4.0 59.2 2.1 4.2 2.9
20 6.6 57.3 3.1 5.7 4.2
25 4.5 59.0 3.5 6.9 4.8
30 0.7 56.1 6.6 5.1 5.1
35 2.6 55.9 3.2 5.7 4.5
40 6.1 54.3 5.2 8.9 7.4
45 6.7 57.0 3.6 6.7 5.0
50 6.3 57.1 2.9 5.3 4.0
55 3.4 56.2 2.9 5.2 4.0
60 0.4 55.0 3.0 5.3 4.3

B Expected direction 2005

Age in Ma Dec Inc a95 dDec dInc

0 0.5 62.8 2.6 5.6 3.3
5 0.2 62.2 2.1 4.4 2.6
10 0.2 61.5 2.6 5.4 3.4
15 0.6 60.7 3.7 7.6 4.9
20 1.0 60.0 2.8 5.6 3.7
25 1.3 59.2 7.9 15.5 10.5
30 1.5 58.5 10.5 7.4 7.4
35 1.6 57.8 4.1 7.7 5.6
40 1.7 56.9 4.1 7.6 5.7
45 1.7 56.1 3.7 6.7 5.2
50 1.7 55.4 4.2 7.4 5.9
55 1.6 54.8 5.6 9.8 8.0
60 1.6 54.4 4.2 7.2 5.9

C Expected direction 2012

Age in Ma Dec Inc a95 dDec dInc

0 0.5 62.2 1.2 2.8 1.5
5 1.2 61.5 1.1 2.7 1.4
10 2.3 60.7 1.1 2.7 1.3
15 3.1 59.6 1.3 3.4 1.6
20 4.0 58.5 1.6 4.1 1.9
25 5.0 57.9 1.5 4.2 1.8
30 6.0 57.3 4.2 1.8 1.8
35 7.1 56.5 1.6 4.5 1.9
40 8.2 55.7 1.7 4.9 2.0
45 7.5 53.4 1.6 5.1 1.9
50 5.5 51.0 1.6 5.3 1.8
55 3.1 49.2 1.4 4.9 1.5
60 0.3 47.5 1.2 4.4 1.3

A: Synthetic APWP (Besse and Courtillot, 2002)

B: APWP results from post-filtering process and spline regression analysis (Schettino and Scotese, 2005)

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