Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Tectónica de placas" in Portuguese language version.
This memoir was originally published in Historical Records of Australian Science (2003) 14 (3).
Abraham Ortelius in his work Thesaurus Geographicus... suggested that the Americas were 'torn away from Europe and Africa... by earthquakes and floods... The vestiges of the rupture reveal themselves, if someone brings forward a map of the world and considers carefully the coasts of the three [continents].'
This memoir was originally published in Historical Records of Australian Science (2003) 14 (3).