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The Atlantic: The driving force behind ocean circulation and our taste for cod

  • Written by Suzanne OConnell, Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Wesleyan University
imageFishing boats coming into Le Guilvinec, Brittany, France, at the end of the day.Photoneye/Shutterstock

“Did the Atlantic close and then reopen?” That was the question posed in a 1966 paper by the Canadian geophysicist J. Tuzo Wilson.

The answer? Yes, over millions of years. And it was the breakup of the supercontinent Pangea, starting...

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