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To: autumnraine

My understanding that is that continental drift has a 250 million year cycle (I can’t remember the name of the cycle) so that the continents drift apart and then drift back together to form a new Pangea every 250 million years (give or take a decade or two).


14 posted on 08/15/2008 12:00:05 PM PDT by bagman
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To: bagman

That would be the Wilson cycle, I think. Named after J. Tuzo Wilson, who observed that the Atlantic Ocean (or another ocean in roughly the same position between N. America and Europe) had opened and closed several times. Somehow that did not stop plate tectonics, nor did the formation of Pangea after the last closure.


26 posted on 08/15/2008 1:24:28 PM PDT by hellbender
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