Strange attractors, spiritual interlopers and lonely wanderers: The search for pre-Pangean supercontinents
The observation is made that there are very strong similarities between the supercontinents Columbia, Rodinia and Pangea. If plate tectonics was operating over the past 2.5 billion years of Earth history, and dominated by extroversion and introversion of ocean basins, it would be unusual for three s...
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Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2014-03-01
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Series: | Geoscience Frontiers |
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Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674987113001576 |