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- Continent (6440 bytes)
2: ...ibya, known by the Romans as [[Africa (province)|Africa]], was west of Alexandria and south of the Med...
4: ...the following geologically recognized continents, from the largest to the smallest:
7: # [[Africa]] on the [[African Plate]]
15: # [[Africa-Eurasia]]: the combined land mass of Africa and Eurasia
19: Africa-Eurasia is less commonly defined than the Amer... - Plate tectonics (27764 bytes)
3: ...nst one another), divergent (two plates move away from each other), and transform (two plates slide pa...
8: ...h the ''chemical'' subdivision of the Earth into (from innermost to outermost) [[Earth#The core|core]]...
12: ...crust|oceanic]] lithospheres; for example, the [[African Plate]] includes the continent and parts of t...
18: ...oundaries]]''' occur where two plates slide apart from each other.
24: ...use highly visible surface effects. Because of [[friction]], the plates cannot simply glide past each... - Eurasia (4541 bytes)
2: [[Image:Eurasia.jpg|right|thumb|African-Eurasian aspect of [[the Blue Marble|Earth]]]...
3: ...[supercontinent]], part of a supercontinent of [[Africa-Eurasia]], or simply a continent. In [[plate t...
9: ...graphically separated from each other as they are from Europe.
11: ...d into [[West Eurasia]] (often including [[North Africa]]) and [[East Eurasia]], and they are further ...
13: ... most Asian migrants traditionally tended to come from the Pacific-rim countries, thus the contrasting... - Supercontinent (3497 bytes)
3: ... [[Africa]] and [[Eurasia]] the supercontinent [[Africa-Eurasia]], which is not a geological supercont...
5: ...ercontinent, see [[Pangaea]] and its successors [[Laurasia]] and [[Gondwana]].
7: ...into the northern and southern supercontinents, [[Laurasia]] and [[Gondwana]].
13: ...ward and crack, [[magma]] will then rise, and the fragments will be pushed apart. It is currently a ma...
21: * [[Laurasia]] - Geologic time scale (26014 bytes)
9: ...use geologic units occurring at the same time but from different parts of the world can often look dif...
19: ...tribes (and defined using stratigraphic sequences from Wales). The "Devonian" was named for the Briti...
28: {{mergefrom|List of time periods}}
81: ...s. Breakup of [[Pangea]] into [[Gondwana]] and [[Laurasia]].
126: ...phibious [[eurypterid]]s; [[rhizodont]]s dominant fresh-water predators. In the seas primitive [[Chon... - Ocean (6829 bytes)
4: '''Ocean''' (from [[Oceanus|Okeanos]], a Greek god of sea and wat...
6: ... [[archipelago]]s into the following five bodies, from the largest to the smallest: the [[Pacific Ocea...
12: ... last few million years movement of the [[Africa|African Continent]] has closed the straight off entir...
51: ...s may have once had internal oceans that have now frozen, such as [[Triton (moon)|Triton]]. The planet...
55: ...y be better known after the full analysis of data from the [[Huygens probe]] of the [[Cassini-Huygens]... - Pangaea (1625 bytes)
3: ...ponent [[continent]]s. The name was coined by [[Alfred Wegener]] in 1915. When the continents first ca...
5: ... have allowed land animals to migrate all the way from the [[South Pole]] to the [[North Pole]].
7: ...|hot]] and trying to rise upward. As a result, [[Africa]] sat several tens of meters higher than the o...
12: ...uthern part, [[Gondwana]], and a northern part, [[Laurasia]]. - Mammal classification (78467 bytes)
9: ...sh among the orders within these subclasses and infraclasses. This system also makes no note of the p...
19: *Infraclass [[Metatheria]]
46: *Infraclass [[Eutheria]]
185: ...istory]], New York. McKenna inherited the project from Simpson and, with Bell, constructed a completel...
203: *Infraclass †[[Allotheria]] - Kentrosaurus (4090 bytes)
17: ... name means 'pointed lizard'. Kentrosaurs were [[Africa]]n cousins of the [[North America]]n ''Stegosa...
23: ..., it had another pair of spikes jutting backwards from the hips. Unlike ''Stegosaurus'', which may hav...
25: ...he [[vertebra]]e of a ''Stegosaurus'' were absent from ''Kentrosaurus''. Therefore, ''Kentrosaurus'' c...
29: ...angaea]], and later the northern half, known as [[Laurasia]]. These two points must also have had very simil...
33: ...909]]–[[1912]] German expedition to [[East Africa]] resulted in the discovery of several new din... - Eocene (7034 bytes)
1: ...n the [[Cenozoic era]]. The Eocene spans the time from the end of the [[Paleocene]] epoch to the begin...
8: ...o lower and upper subdivisions. The Faunal stages from youngest to oldest are:
24: ...inction event that distinguishes Eocene [[fauna]] from the ecosystems of the [[Paleocene]].
31: ...wn, and the ocean surrounding Antarctica began to freeze, sending cold water and icefloes north, reinf...
33: The northern [[supercontinent]] of [[Laurasia]] began to break up, as [[Europe]], [[Greenland]]... - Mesozoic (1564 bytes)
3: ...c]], [[Jurassic]] and [[Cretaceous]]. It extended from roughly 251 million years before present to rou...
8: ...ively into four continents: [[South America]], [[Africa]], [[Australia]] and [[Antarctica]].
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