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Since you can find the same distinctive rock strata in both the east coast of South America and the west coast of Africa, it suggests that those two coasts were once connected.

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Since you can find the same distinctive rock strata in both the east coast of South America and the west coast of Africa, it suggests that those two coasts were once connected.

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