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In the Precambrian Research article, Teixeira and geologists Maria Helena Hollanda, from USP, Elson Paiva Oliveira, from the State University of Campinas (Unicamp), Elton Luis Dantas, from the University of Brasília (UnB), and Peng Peng, from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, propose that a region that includes part of the states of Minas Gerais and Bahia, in South America, and the region of Congo, in West Africa, could have been welded in the remote past to the north of China in the interior of Columbia.