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What Did the Continents Look Like Millions of Years Ago?
The Atlantic ^ | 9-23-2013 | Geoff Manaugh & Nicola Twilley

Posted on 09/25/2013 6:56:19 AM PDT by Renfield

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To: centurion316

Lots of time and the “cloning” and “warping” tools. LOL.


21 posted on 09/25/2013 7:51:31 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
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To: centurion316

how is this “nonsense”? dr. blakey’s been working on these maps in conjunction with numerous scholarly publications and a few books since the 1970s.


22 posted on 09/25/2013 7:53:50 AM PDT by clio morrel (smoking is healthier than facism.)
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23 posted on 09/25/2013 7:57:45 AM PDT by JoeProBono (Mille vocibus imago valet;-{)
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To: Renfield

My wife was watching one of those “celebrity house” shows, and one of them had a big wall/fireplace made of imported sandstone. I told her ours was imported sandstone, too. She asked where it was from, and I told her “Pangea”.


24 posted on 09/25/2013 8:04:59 AM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: Renfield

In all fairness, it is rather unfortunate that such maps end with the present day. It would be as creative a project to show, based on current tectonic trends, what the future holds.

For example, in a mere 50 million years, Africa is going to jam headlong into Eurasia, as the most dramatic change.

At 150 million years, Australia will join with Antarctica, yet likely have a land bridge to Eurasia. And at 250 million years, the continents are generally going to Pangea-up again.


25 posted on 09/25/2013 8:24:02 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (The best War on Terror News is at rantburg.com)
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To: clio morrel

Blakley’s work is not nonsense. My response was directed at the link posted in post 16. Apparently, if you get Google Earth, you too can be a geologist.


26 posted on 09/25/2013 8:40:39 AM PDT by centurion316
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To: henkster

It is also true that the Earth’s rotation is slowing, but I’m pretty sure that if we end capitalism, adopt globalism and a massive egalitarian wealth redistribution, we can fix that. /s


27 posted on 09/25/2013 8:56:16 AM PDT by Teotwawki (For a person to get a thing without paying for it, another must pay for it without getting it.)
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28 posted on 09/25/2013 9:14:02 AM PDT by Daffynition (*In memory of FReeper Blackie. God rest his *Hooligan* soul.*)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Quite cheap. But instead of feral people, you’d have had to contend with angry dinos.


29 posted on 09/25/2013 10:36:02 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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Thanks Renfield.

30 posted on 10/18/2013 10:07:05 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
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Thanks Renfield.


31 posted on 10/18/2013 10:07:06 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
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To: Renfield

This is fantastic! “Annals of the Former World”, by John McPhee describes a lot of this, but I always had a hard time visualizing it well. Love it, love it, love it. Thanks for the link!


32 posted on 10/19/2013 4:00:25 AM PDT by Explorer89 (And now, let the wild rumpus start!!)
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-——this is a concept that non-geologists really have problems with, because they don’t understand the processes of how continents get uplifted and subside ——

So there we have it....... global warming is not causing the sea levels to rise. The continent is subsiding as it moves.

Chicken little must be reeducated. Quacky Lacky must develop a program to curtail continental drift.

This is not theory but reality. They have the drift numbers and proof, not models.


33 posted on 10/19/2013 4:54:06 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Travon... Felony assault and battery hate crime)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

-——“Where can you go,
When there’s no San Francisco!-—

A new queertown is rising in Asheville NC so an immigrant queer from New York told me


34 posted on 10/19/2013 4:56:12 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Travon... Felony assault and battery hate crime)
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