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 One hundred years after the German scientist Alfred Wegener developed first ideas of continental drift, this study provides a new keystone in understanding the rules which govern continental extension and tectonic plate motion ultimately sculpting Earth's continents into the shapes as we recognise them today. One hundred years after the German scientist Alfred Wegener developed first ideas of continental drift, this study provides a new keystone in understanding the rules which govern continental extension and tectonic plate motion ultimately sculpting Earth's continents into the shapes as we recognise them today.
  
-Here's our guess for how the world might look liked like if a Saharan Atlantic ocean had formed (Image licensed under a Creative Commons Share-Alike Attribution License): {{ :tectonicwaters:2014:thesaharanocean.png |The world as it might have looked like if the West African Rift system had been "successful" in forming a "Saharan Atlantic Ocean basin". We explain in our paper why this did not happen. Made with GPlates and image manipulation.}}+Here's our guess for how the world might look liked like if a Saharan Atlantic ocean had formed (Image licensed under a [[https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/|Creative Commons Share-Alike Attribution NonCommerical License]]): {{ :tectonicwaters:2014:thesaharanocean.png |The world as it might have looked like if the West African Rift system had been "successful" in forming a "Saharan Atlantic Ocean basin". We explain in our paper why this did not happen. Made with GPlates and image manipulation.}}
  
 The  abstract of the paper: The  abstract of the paper: