Saving some of you the search:
I like how India started near the Antarctic but was like "nah fuck this cold shit, imma go yeet myself into Asia"
What's the deal with the Juan De Fuca plate?
Just a little guy
The Cocos plate sounds tasty.
Just FYI, the modern theory of plate tectonics dates back to the 1960s but by that time it had been centuries since people first noticed that some continents looked like they had fit together and then moved apart.
Wikipedia says that in 1596,
Abraham Ortelius in his work Thesaurus Geographicus ... suggested that the Americas were "torn away from Europe and Africa ... by earthquakes and floods" and went on to say: "The vestiges of the rupture reveal themselves if someone brings forward a map of the world and considers carefully the coasts of the three [continents]."
They would get sent out to play in the asbestos pits and inhale all the lead they can huff before running home before the streetlights turn on for a good old-fashioned beating.
I know this is an old meme but god damn is it funny
But it checks out
The kid figuring out they fit together: the what
The theory of Plate Tectonics: the how
