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booley

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9. Ocean

Reply to madinmaryland (Reply #8)

Sun Jun 2, 2013, 07:37 PM

Jun 2013

Pangea was when all the continents were joined into one.

There may have been islands but pretty much the majority of the land was all on one side of the earth

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Pangea (a supercontinent that formed roughly 300 million years ago) mapped with contemporary geopoli [View all] Playinghardball Jun 2013 OP

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Wild in a good way nadinbrzezinski Jun 2013 #4

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Question. What is on the other side of the earth? Or is this Thomas Friedman's flat world? madinmaryland Jun 2013 #8

Ocean booley Jun 2013 #9

But that doesn't make sense. The earth rotates on axis which should spread mass out evenly when cool KittyWampus Jun 2013 #17

I've seen this before and it makes a whole lotta sense. Our geopolitics would be a nightmare. JaneyVee Jun 2013 #10

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And Get This... Liberal_Dog Jun 2013 #12

LOL! PD Turk Jun 2013 #13

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... Fumesucker Jun 2013 #15

A singular land mass > what's on the other side of globe? Fitting pieces together leaves a huge KittyWampus Jun 2013 #16

Very cool etherealtruth Jun 2013 #18