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Why was Pangaea effected?

Updated: 8/18/2019
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There was a time, a time when the continents sat on the top of the mantle, one of Earth's layers. The supercontinent Pangaea was sitting on the top of the mantle, too. Because of that, Pangaea was affected by a process called continental drift, which was discovered by Alfred Wegener in the 19th or 20th century. About 250 million years ago, Pangaea began to break apart, therefore splitting into Laurasia and Godwana. About 180 million years ago, Laurasia broke into North America, Greenland and Eurasia, while Godwana broke into South America, Africa, Arabia, Antarctica, India, and Australia.

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