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Map of the contentents through geologic time
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From This Dynamic Earth: The Story of Plate Tectonics, published by the U.S. Geological Survey.
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Sequence of five globes show positions of the continents and oceans in Permian (225 million years ago), Triassic (200 million years ago), Jurassic (135 million years ago), Cretaceous (65 million years ago), and present periods, as the single landmass of Pangaea broke up and the continents drifted apart.
