Acid reflux: Normally, stomach acids remain in the stomach where the lining is well protected from damage by cels that produce mucin. The esophagus has less protection than the stomach and if acids leave the stomach frequently, the esophagus can be damaged. Acid exposure to damagesd tissues can cause pain (heart burn). Even though this sounds like reflux, a docctor's evaluation is suggested to confirm this. ...Read more.
This means that the floor of the Atlantic Ocean basin has a big 'rip' in the middle where magma is spewing out and forming new oceanic crust and thus forcing Africa and South America away from each other.This has been happening since the Jurassic period, some 200 million years ago!Source(s): geology degree.ell, one side of each continent (the atlantic ocean side) is moving away from the other continent, but since the earth is round, this means that the other sides must be moving toward each other, unless the world is growing, and it doesn,t appear to be, so..... busterwasmycat Â· 5 years ago.
Triassic basins were formed when Pangea split up, Africa and North America moved apart, and the Atlantic Ocean formed Source: Ron Blakely, Paleogeography and Geologic Evolution of North America, Middle Triassic (230 million years ago) 300 million years ago, before the supercontinent of Pangea split up, Virginia was located far from any ocean.