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| Title: | Paleoclimatic evidence for continental drift. |
| Caption: | B. Shown are the continents restored to their former position with the South Pole located roughly between Antarctica and Africa. This configuration accounts for the conditions necessary to generate a vast ice sheet and also explains the directions of ice movement that radiated away from the South Pole. |
| Keywords: | plate tectonics, tectonic plates, continental drift, continents, climates, glaciers, continental ice sheets |