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Vanished super-ocean or expanding Earth?

10.10.03 | Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

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This geological and biogeographic evidence is not consistent with the plate tectonic hypothesis of a now-vanished, pre-Pacific super-ocean, Panthalassa.

Instead, it supports a minority view in geology that holds that all oceans were closed and the Earth's radius was smaller pre-Jurassic.

This is discussed in the October issue of Journal of Biogeography, Volume 30, Issue 10

Journal of Biogeography

Keywords

Biogeography Oceans Plate Tectonics

Article Information

Journal

Journal of Biogeography

Contact Information

Kate Stinchcombe

kate.stinchcombe@oxon.blackwellpublishing.com

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Blackwell Publishing Ltd.. (2003, October 10). Vanished super-ocean or expanding Earth?. Brightsurf News. https://www.brightsurf.com/news/LD5XE6GL/vanished-super-ocean-or-expanding-earth.html

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