Message #10738

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THE GREAT ISLANDS UNDER THE SEA                                                                 continued



One can see how the shapes mesh, with Brazil fitting into the southwest
coast of central Africa (even the types of rocks correspond), Egypt and
Sudan into Arabia, North Africa into Mediterranean Europe, Arabia into
Iran, Madagascar into Mozambique, Greenland into West Norway, Florida
into Africa near Liberia, Australia into Antarctica, and a number of other
instances not always so evident, such as the West Coast of Europe into
North America.

The continents are still moving at what might be called an unhurried pace
- two centimeters a year -. 

At this rate it will be millions of years before the West Coast of North America
catches up with Japan and China, toward which points it is now heading.