Meridians are perpendicular to every latitude<span>. ... All the other </span>longitudes are measured<span>, and named after the angle they make with respect to the center of the Earth from the intersection of the Meridian and the Equator. Since a sphere has 360 </span>degrees<span>, the Earth is divided into 360 </span>longitudes<span>.</span>
In 1815, Mount Tambora erupted on Sumbawa, an island of modern-day Indonesia. Historians regard it as the volcano eruption with the deadliest known direct impact: roughly 100,000 people died in the immediate aftermath.
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I'm no paleontologist but my answer would be:
Throughout time the tectonic plates slowly shift. This causes certain things fossil or not to be in landmasses thousands of miles away.