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Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 09:44:20 -0000
From: Francis Herbert <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: FW: Number of continents (paleo-geology)
Sender: Francis Herbert <[log in to unmask]>


Dear Lis-maps and Maps-L subscribers,

The query subjoined was answered by a couple of MapHist subscribers this
week (including, rather weakly, myself).  As I felt that more responses
would come from either, or both, of the Lists now being asked I am thus
forwarding the query (with Adrianne Wortzel's permission) to these two
Lists.  I have taken the liberty of adding to the 'Subject' the
parenthetical "(paleo-geology)".  Perhaps it should also be forwarded to a
geological List - if someone would kindly oblige?

Thankyou,
Francis Herbert (Curator of Maps, RGS-IBG)
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http://www.rgs.org

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adrianne Wortzel [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 12 November 2000 11:38
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Number of continents
>
> Dear Maphist:
>
> For a project, I would appreciate some help with questions concerning the
> number of continents ----
>
> Can anyone direct me towards finding out the correct number (and the names
> ) of continents during the several periods below to the present?
>
> Permian time of Pangaea, 225 million years ago  = 1 (Pangaea)
> Triassic time of Laurasia and Gondwanaland, 200 million years ago = ?
> Jurassic time, 135 million years ago = ?
> Cretaeceous time, 65 million years ago = ?
> The Present  = 7?   - And Is this the count (7) for The Present?  AFRICA,
> ANTARCTICA, ASIA, AUSTRALIA/OCEANIA, EUROPE, NORTH AMERICA, SOUTH AMERICA
>
> Thank you.
>
> Adrianne Wortzel
>
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