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Page 111
... Brazil . Subsequent sampling and dating disclosed the contact in its predicted location . Farther south along the Brazilian coast a second belt of ancient rocks ( 2,000,000,000 years old ) matches one in West Africa . The elegant fit of ...
... Brazil . Subsequent sampling and dating disclosed the contact in its predicted location . Farther south along the Brazilian coast a second belt of ancient rocks ( 2,000,000,000 years old ) matches one in West Africa . The elegant fit of ...
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... Brazil . A mandible fragment from a Triassic labyrinthodont , discovered in 1968 , is the first land vertebrate fossil to be found in Antarctica . It represents an amphibian , four feet long , whose remains also occur in Gondwana beds ...
... Brazil . A mandible fragment from a Triassic labyrinthodont , discovered in 1968 , is the first land vertebrate fossil to be found in Antarctica . It represents an amphibian , four feet long , whose remains also occur in Gondwana beds ...
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... Brazil . Thought to be an island , it was named the Land of the True Cross . Dias thus participated in the discovery of Brazil . He was lost at sea when they reached the Cape , thus perishing in the very waters he had been the first to ...
... Brazil . Thought to be an island , it was named the Land of the True Cross . Dias thus participated in the discovery of Brazil . He was lost at sea when they reached the Cape , thus perishing in the very waters he had been the first to ...
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