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Cambrian paleogeography Distribution of landmasses, mountainous regions, shallow seas, and deep ocean basins during the Late Carboniferous. Included in the paleogeographic reconstruction are cold and warm ocean currents. The present-day coastlines and tectonic boundaries of the configured continents are shown in the inset. Pangea: Late Jurassic Period continental drift Devonian paleogeography Silurian paleogeography Pangea: Early Triassic Period Triassic paleogeography Cambrian paleogeography Carboniferous paleogeography
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Also Known As Gondwanaland

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Cambrian paleogeography
Distribution of landmasses, mountainous regions, shallow seas, and deep ocean basins during the Late Carboniferous. Included in the paleogeographic reconstruction are cold and warm ocean currents. The present-day coastlines and tectonic boundaries of the configured continents are shown in the inset.
Pangea: Late Jurassic Period
continental drift
Devonian paleogeography
Silurian paleogeography
Pangea: Early Triassic Period
Triassic paleogeography
Cambrian paleogeography
Carboniferous paleogeography
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Alfred Lothar Wegener
Alfred Wegener
German meteorologist and geophysicist
Suess, Eduard
Eduard Suess
Austrian geologist