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The Initiation of the South Atlantic Ocean: The broad context, the local questions
- Publisher: European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers
- Source: Conference Proceedings, 9th SAGA Biennial Technical Meeting and Exhibition, Sep 2005, cp-154-00014
Abstract
Ideas on plate tectonics started with the recognition of the remarkably similar shape of the coastlines of Africa and<br>South America. The elegance of the theory at global scale has to be matched eventually with evidence (both<br>geological and geophysical) at local scale.