A palaeomagnetic survey of South American rock formations - A palaeomagnetic survey of South American rock formations: General introduction

Abstract
The results of this survey are presented in five papers which follow this introductory paper. Experimental methods, statistical treatment, conventions and abbreviations used in the work as a whole are described here. A list of references to published work in English on South American geology and also of South American palaeomagnetic data is appended.