When You Could Fling A Frisbee From Canada To Zimbabwe

Ancient basalt vein, Greenland Credit: Michael A. Hamilton

From Live Science:

Imagine flipping a Frisbee in Quebec, Canada, and seeing it land in Zimbabwe. That’s a distance of 8,000 miles now, but 2.6 billion years ago, with good wrist action, it would have been no feat at all (if only there had been Frisbees and, of course, people).

Present-day Quebec and Zimbabwe were adjacent way back then, say geologists who are using new techniques to map Earth’s early continents.

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