Review of paleoclimate and continental drift

Paleoclimatic data to be useful in the evaluation of continental drift models must generally be quantitative and globally distributed. Few such sets of data are available. Consideration is given to the “state of the art” for several of the most promising or widely applied techniques, including¹⁸O/¹⁶O paleotemperatures, biological methods such as paleobiogeography, distribution of certain sediment types and paleomagnetism. No results which appear unequivocal have yet been obtained.