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kpete

(71,986 posts) Wed Oct 8, 2014, 11:21 AM Oct 2014

Pangaea: The 300 million year old supercontinent visualized with current political borders.

http://www.broadsheet.ie/2013/05/27/today-in-pangaea/

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Pangaea: The 300 million year old supercontinent visualized with current political borders. (Original Post) kpete Oct 2014 OP

You might want to edit your op title: It's Pangaea cali Oct 2014 #1

cool! Baclava Oct 2014 #2

Fascinating. Maine and Morocco used to share a border. Throd Oct 2014 #3

Yep. The Appalachians and the Atlas mountains are actually a single range. Xithras Oct 2014 #6

K & R abakan Oct 2014 #4

It's a very long train ride from my city to Japan or Australia. hunter Oct 2014 #5

cali

(114,904 posts)

1. You might want to edit your op title: It's Pangaea

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Wed Oct 8, 2014, 11:26 AM

Oct 2014

Baclava

(12,047 posts)

2. cool!

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Wed Oct 8, 2014, 11:29 AM

Oct 2014

It's all cracking open!

Throd

(7,208 posts)

3. Fascinating. Maine and Morocco used to share a border.

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Wed Oct 8, 2014, 11:33 AM

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Xithras

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6. Yep. The Appalachians and the Atlas mountains are actually a single range.

Reply to Throd (Reply #3)

Wed Oct 8, 2014, 12:29 PM

Oct 2014

They formed together when the continents collided, and then separated when the continents drifted apart again.

The Appalachian mountains in Maine:

The Eastern Atlas in Africa:

A single mountain range split by an ocean. At one time, they were taller than the Himalayas and Andes.