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Describe how continents move across the ocean basins as if they are on a conveyor belt

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Convenient crust moves over millions of years like how the America’s broke apart from Africa and Europe and how Australia was once contented to Antarctica
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The magnetic stripes continue across the seafloor. If the oceanic crust butts up against a continent, it pushes that continent away from the ridge axis as well. Rather than drifting across the oceans, the continents ride on a conveyor belt of oceanic crust that takes them around the planet's surface.

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