Global paleopoles

In July 1987, Phil McFadden of th e Australian Bureau of Mineral Resources wrote to Rob Van der Voo at the University of Michigan and to several other paleomagnetists in the U.S. suggesting that the time had come for construction of a paleomagnetic data base. He added that Mike McElhinny was thinking of retiring from BMR and might be interested in the project. He thought funding for the project could perhaps be sought from organizations such as the National Science Foundation. To make a long story short we are now, nearly two years later, well on the way with at least one large component of this suggestion: a global paleomagnetic pole data base being constructed by Mike McElhinny for thr entire world.