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So, I pretty well understand *most* of the tectonic processes, but there is one thing that I'm having trouble wrapping my mind around, and I've asked around on Reddit a bit to no avail. My question is what causes the breakup of supercontinents. I browsed the stuff from Scotese, but the only thing of substance I saw was that subduction is main driving force for plate movement. Buuutt when you look at tectonic reconstructions basically none of the plates that include a landmass are being subducted when Pangea breaks apart. This linkhttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...entered-en.svg shows that even today the the plates that hold the major landmasses are moving even though most of them aren't subducting anywhere. So is there any information on what made Pangea break up the way it did?
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