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What drives the movement of Earth’s continents?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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The Evolution of the Earth's Continents

The continents are like a giant jigsaw puzzle, which I guess makes me ask a question. How do you even get started? If you don't have corner pieces and dark to go, always start with Antarctica, but it's all white. And it looks the same as the pieces in the North Pole. Yeah, that's true. It's a puzzle. But it sounds like we sort of figured it out so we know that the continents are moving and they have been moving. Before only about 200 and something million years ago, all the continents that we know today were all crushed together into one supercontinent. Around 250 million years ago. This was a really revolutionary idea at the time

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