Similar fossils found on different continents helped geologists determine how the continents used to be connected. Mountain belts marked the boundaries of moving plates, which showed in which direction the different continents drifted. Extrapolating from this information, scientists had a rough idea of how the continents were arranged eons ago.
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Uranium-lead radiometric dating is most often performed on the mineral zircon.
Japan is a small isle chain with millions of people due to the fact it is mainly arable (It allows for agriculture), but the fact is the increase technology brings up the population of Japan. Japan is also still influx of population by World war 2, as they had MILLIONS upon MILLIONS die on different isles, lands, etc. They also had a major emigration after WWII.