Life cycle of ocean

August Wilson is an American playwright who was born in 1945. Wilson wrote The Pittsburgh Cycle which is a series of ten plays each set in a different decade. He received two Pulitzer Prizes for drama for his writing.

August Wilson wrote a total of 10 plays as part of his influential Pittsburgh Cycle, also known as the Century Cycle. Each play in the cycle is set in a different decade and explores the African-American experience in the 20th century.

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In 1966 J. Tuzo Wilson proposed that there has been a continuous series of cycles of continental rifting and collision. That is, break-up of super-continents, drifting and collision and formation of other super-continents.