Fit between Africa and Antarctica: A Continental Drift Reconstruction

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Mar 1970

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1970sci...167.1612d&link_type=abstract

Science, Volume 167, Issue 3925, pp. 1612-1614

Computer Science

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A computerized (smallest average misfit) best fit position is obtained for the juxtaposition of Africa and Antarctica in a continental drift reconstruction. An S-shaped portion of the Weddell and Princess Martha Coast regions of western East Antarctica is fitted into a similar profile along southeastern Africa. The total amount of overlap is 36,300 square kilometers, and the underlap is 23,600 square kilometers; the total mismatch is thus of 59,900 square kilometers. The congruency along the 1000-fathom isobath is remarkably good and suggests that this reconstruction is valid within the overall framework of the Gondwana supercontinent.

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