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Re:Map Shows How a Location Has Changed over the Past 750M Y... by Merrill on Monday September 09, 2019 @01:05PM (#20919975)
If you track Cancun from 200 million years ago, it shows the Gulf of Mexico opening up as the Yucatan block rotates clockwise. The Florida platform stays pretty much stationary. This likely accounts for why there are no oil wells on the Florida platform south of the panhandle.
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