THE EXISTENCE AND CONFIGURATION OF PRE- 

 CAMBRIAN CONTINENTS 



BY RUDOLF RUEDEMANN 



TABLE OF CONTENTS 



PAGE 

 Introduction 67 



Survey of views on origin and age of continents and oceans 68 



Actuality of Precambrian folding and fold systems 74 



Description of Precambrian fold systems 81 



a Precambrian fold system of North America 84 



b Precambrian fold system of Eurasia 93 



c Precambrian fold system of Africa 98 



d Precambrian fold system of Australia 102 



e Aequinoctia 106 



/ Precambrian fold system of South America no 



Evidence from posthumous folding 112 



Relations of Precambrian continents to Paleozoic continents 116 



Relation of Precambrian and Paleozoic continents to present mobile tracts 



of the earth 124 



Probable causes of the worldwide extension and the principal directions of 



the Precambrian folding 128 



Bibliography 145 



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