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Originally posted by LRP:
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Originally posted by David unfamous:
LRP,
I've entered into this a bit late, but since when has Pangea thought to have been a circular continent?
Snider (1858) was I think the first person to reconstruct the continents and this was to all intents and purposes circular
when plotted on the curved surface of the globe.
Wegener(1915) also managed to get it close to circular.
Du Toit(1937) Smith and Hallam (1970), Tarling (1972) and Powell et al (1980) seem to have made it a bit more elliptical.
An eliptical shape would be more in keeping with the method of formation I have suggested.
Maybe 'contained within' an elipse of sorts, but Pangea was as eliptoid as a Cashew nut from what I have seen.
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