Word: pangea
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...opposing sides of the Atlantic seemed to fit together. Alfred Wegener was not the first to notice that the bulging coastline of Brazil is a reciprocal of the west coast of Africa. For centuries scientists and cartographers speculated that a single large continent, which came to be called Pangea, had broken up into huge fragments that floated like rafts on the earth's plastic core until they reached their present positions. Such theories, however, were consistently hooted down with the derision scientists so often reserve for new ideas. Wegener, who had already established a reputation as a polar explorer...