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  2. Geophysicists just debunked a key assumption about how ... - AOL

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    Apparently, Pangea broke apart at about the speed fingernails grow. Geophysicists just debunked a key assumption about how Earth's continents formed Skip to main content

  3. Continental drift - Wikipedia

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    He proposed that the continents had once formed a single landmass, called Pangaea, before breaking apart and drifting to their present locations. [32] Wegener was the first to use the phrase "continental drift" (1912, 1915) [5] [18] (German: "die Verschiebung der Kontinente") and to publish the hypothesis that the continents had somehow ...

  4. Pangaea - Wikipedia

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    Pangaea or Pangea (/ p æ n ˈ dʒ iː ə / pan-JEE-ə) [1] was a supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras. [2] It assembled from the earlier continental units of Gondwana , Euramerica and Siberia during the Carboniferous approximately 335 million years ago, and began to break apart about 200 million years ...

  5. Solutrean hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    Examples of Clovis and other Paleoindian point forms, markers of archaeological cultures in North America. The Solutrean hypothesis on the peopling of the Americas is the claim that the earliest human migration to the Americas began from Europe during the Solutrean Period, with Europeans traveling along pack ice in the Atlantic Ocean.

  6. Supercontinent cycle - Wikipedia

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    Map of Pangaea with modern continental outlines. The supercontinent cycle is the quasi-periodic aggregation and dispersal of Earth's continental crust.There are varying opinions as to whether the amount of continental crust is increasing, decreasing, or staying about the same, but it is agreed that the Earth's crust is constantly being reconfigured.

  7. Lemuria - Wikipedia

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    Lemuria (/ l ɪ ˈ m jʊər i ə /), or Limuria, was a continent proposed in 1864 by zoologist Philip Sclater, theorized to have sunk beneath the Indian Ocean, later appropriated by occultists in supposed accounts of human origins.

  8. Antonio Snider-Pellegrini - Wikipedia

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    Antonio Snider-Pellegrini (1802–1885) was a French geographer and geologist who theorized about the possibility of continental drift, anticipating Wegener's theories concerning Pangaea by several decades. In 1858, Snider-Pellegrini published his book, La Création et ses mystères dévoilés ("The Creation and its Mysteries Unveiled").

  9. FACT CHECK: Instagram Video Claiming To Show UFOs In ... - AOL

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    On Dec. 20, Reuters debunked the claim, reporting the video was AI-generated. In addition, Joey Malinski, the video’s creator, admitted he made the content with AI in a subsequent post.