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Have the continents on opposite sides of the Atlantic ocean generally been drifting apart?
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Yes. The continents have been drifting around since Earth first got her oceans, or before. At one time, there were a group of continents clustered near what is now Antarctica . . . the entire remainder of Earth's surface was covered by oceans of water. They eventually drifted apart. The current arrangement of continents occurred fairly recently in Earth's 4.5 billion year age.
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If north America move 1.25 per year how far will it be away from ridge in middle of Atlantic ocean in 200 million years?
You can calculate this. The total of both continents will make it 2.5 centimeter. You will get pretty long distance. You can ask the distance after 20 billion years also. It is easy to calculate the answer using the calculator. But it is not practical answer. This way, the continents will override each other on the opposite side of the earth. This can not happen. The speed of drifting of the continents is not constant. it was high at the beginning of the fracture of the continents. It is getting slower and slower. The drifting will eventually stop, once the mass is distributed evenly across the earth. It will indefinitely long time for this to happen. This is subjected to the momentum of the earth due to the rotation of the earth.
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generally
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The problem with continental drift was no mechanism could be found by which the continents could drift through the solid rock of the ocean seafloor. In the 1950s the US Navy found the evidence of alternating polarity magnetic stripes on the ocean seafloor that were symmetrical on opposite sides of the midocean ridges. But this information was kept classified until the late 1970s. When it was declassified and made available to geophysicists it became the proof that showed the continents were not drifting as Wegener proposed, but the earth's crust was divided into plates that dragged the continents along with them as they moved.
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Supplementary trapezoid opposite angles?
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