Fig. 2.

Mean paleomagnetic poles at 10-Myr intervals from 120 Ma to the present from the global synthetic apparent polar wander path (84) shown as circles of 95% confidence for Eurasia (dark shading) and for India (lighter shading), compared with individual paleomagnetic poles from the ≈117 Ma Rajmahal (85), ≈90 Ma Madagascar (86), ≈65 Ma Deccan (87), and ≈30 Ma Ethiopian (88) traps as reliability checks on paleopole path for India. Madagascar and Ethiopian paleopoles were rotated into India coordinates by using rotation parameters from ref. 84.