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The different continents on Earth today were once connected with each other. What caused them to break apart.?​

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About 525 million years ago, that land mass broke apart, with North America on one side and South America, Africa and the small island pieces on the other. The two plates drifted apart, forming the Iapetus Ocean. ... The amount of each element was typical of rock created in the ocean, away from larger continental masses

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