..WHERE HAVE WE HEARD THIS INFORMATION BEFORE????? Researchers even say an unusual magnetic signal near Florida shows the peninsula stuck to North Americas heel like a piece of old tape about 300 million years ago, when the central and southern Appalachian mountains were built For hundreds of millions of years, the southern continents of South America, Africa, Antarctica, Australia, and India were united in the supercontinent Gondwana. While the causes for Gondwanas fragmentation are still debated, it is clear that the supercontinent first split along along the East African coast in a western and eastern part before separation of South America from Africa took place. Todays continental margins along the South Atlantic ocean and the subsurface graben structure of the West African Rift system in the African continent, extending from Nigeria northwards to Libya, provide key insights on the processes that shaped present-day Africa and South America. Read more: dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2599349/Massive-mountains-flowing-lava-How-Americas-East-Coast-caught-colliding-tectonic-plates-Florida-actually-fell-Africa.html#ixzz3Nj5l69jA Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
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