The story of pangea and plate tectonics

The Story of Pangaea & Plate Tectonics Leslie Prohaska Florida State University SCE 5943 Field Lab Internship Dr. Alejandro Gallard September 14, 2009

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Look at the western side of Africa and the eastern side of South America

If you turn South America, and then slide it over It fits right in….

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Half a century later… this idea continued as continental drift ,[object Object],[object Object]

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Wegener’s Evidence ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

More evidence finally came ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

So…what happened to Pangaea? ,[object Object],[object Object],Tethys Sea

More splitting… ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Plate Tectonic Theory ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

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The Broken Pieces of the Lithosphere ,[object Object]

Boundaries – where the plates meet ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Our plates are still moving… ,[object Object],[object Object]

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