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The Atlantic Ocean begins to Close

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New subduction zones along the eastern coasts of North America and South America will begin to consume the ocean floor separating North America from Africa.  About 100 million years from now the present-day Mid-Atlantic Ridge will be subducted and the continents will come closer together.

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