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Dunes, climate models don't match up with paleomagnetic records

For a quarter-century or more, the view among geoscientists has been that the portion of the ancient supercontinent of Pangea that is now the Colorado Plateau in southern Utah shifted more than 1,300 miles north during a 100-million year span that ended about 200 million years ago in the early Jurassic Period, when Pangea began to break up. But new research by University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the University of Michigan challenges that theory.

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