Were Antarctica and North America Once Connected?


	Were Antarctica and North America Once Connected?

Socratoad

7-19-2008 1:13 PM

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7-19-2008 2:42 PM

meancookie89

OOoooooooooooooooo i wonder if there are fossil there to!

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One of the rocks that they picked up turned out to be, later, a very
specific form of granite with, as Goodge describes it, "a particular
type of coarse-grained texture." Chemical and isotopic tests conducted
by the team in laboratories in the US revealed the boulder to have a
chemistry "very similar to a unique belt of igneous rocks in North
America" that stretches from what is now California eastward through
New Mexico to Kansas, Illinois and eventually through New Brunswick and
Newfoundland in Canada.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/0426A9A7-A36A-409E-8A3F-B38906FEF618/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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