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Pre-Cenozoic correlations across the South Atlantic region: (the ties that bind) (2008)

de Wit, M. J. ; de Brito Neves, B. B. ; Trouw, R. A. J. ; [et al.]

In: Geological Society Special Publication 294: 1-8.

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Publication Date: 2008-02-01

Description: The first to recognize the complementary shapes of Africa and South America and to suggest that these continents were once joined together was Dutch scientist Ortelius in 1596. He was followed in 1620 by Elizabethan philosopher Sir Francis Bacon, who asserted that the similarity of their shapes could not be accidental. Nearly 200 years later, German naturalist von Humboldt described how the two continents may have fitted together, and in 1860 French geographer Antonio Snyder produced the first map that showed South America and Africa in close contact (e.g., Blankett 1965). By 1915 the German meteorologist Alfred Wegener had amassed enough data to publish a comprehensive scientific argument for the past conjunction of these two continents on the basis of similarities in the Palaeozoic

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