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ihslThe document summarizes the theory of continental drift, which was proposed by Alfred Wegener in 1912. It explains that the continents move across the ocean bed due to shifting tectonic plates at a rate of 1 to 10 cm per year. This movement of plates causes volcanic and seismic activity at plate boundaries. The document also discusses Pangaea, a supercontinent that existed 300 million years ago before breaking apart over 100 million years.
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3. However, Wegener's theory was initially rejected because he could not explain what caused the continents to move. It was not until the 1950s-60s that seafloor spreading and plate tectonics were discovered, providing a mechanism to explain continental drift.
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- In the 1950s-60s, studies of seafloor topography, magnetism in oceanic rocks, and seismic activity revealed processes of seafloor spreading at mid-ocean ridges and tectonic plate movement.
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This document discusses evidence that supports continental drift and plate tectonics theories. It describes how the Earth's crust is divided into plates that move over time, occasionally colliding or splitting apart. Fossil, rock formation, and climate data from separated continents provided early evidence that landmasses have drifted over hundreds of millions of years. Studies of the ocean floor revealed patterns of magnetic polarity reversals and symmetrical magnetic strips that supported the hypothesis of sea floor spreading at mid-ocean ridges, with new crust forming and pushing older crust farther outward over time. Together this evidence established plate tectonics as the mechanism explaining continental movement and geological phenomena like earthquakes and volcanoes.
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Alfred Wegener first proposed the theory of continental drift in 1910, suggesting that the continents were once joined together in a supercontinent called Pangaea. Wegener provided three lines of evidence to support his theory: the matching shapes of continental coastlines, matching fossil distributions across continents, and evidence that past climates did not match current continental positions. While his theory was initially rejected due to the lack of a mechanism, it was later supported by the discovery of seafloor spreading in the 1960s, which provided a process to explain how and why continents move over Earth's surface.
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- Key evidence included fossil distributions, glacier patterns, and the matching shapes of continents on opposite sides of the Atlantic. However, the mechanism for continental drift was unknown.
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2) Evidence for continental drift includes matching coastlines, similarities in fossils found on different continents, matching rock types along coastlines, and geological features lining up across continents.
3) In the mid-20th century, discoveries of seafloor spreading and plate tectonics provided the mechanism of plate tectonics to explain continental drift, with ocean floors being created at mid-ocean ridges and spreading outward over time.
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This document discusses continental drift and the evidence that supports it. It explains that tectonic plates move around on top of the asthenosphere in different shapes and sizes. The hypothesis of continental drift proposed by Wegener in the early 1900s was that the continents were once joined together in a supercontinent called Pangaea before breaking apart and drifting to their current locations. Key evidence that supported this idea included matching fossil records, complementary coastline shapes, and patterns of magnetic reversals in ocean crust that indicate sea floor spreading.
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1) The document discusses Alfred Wegener's theory of continental drift from 1912, which proposed that the continents were once joined together in a single landmass called Pangaea before slowly drifting apart.
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Taylor proposed the concept of continental drift in 1908, hypothesizing that continents had shifted horizontally across Earth's surface over geological time. He suggested that the Arctic Sea was formed when Greenland and Siberia drifted apart, and that gaps between landmasses were filled by water to form oceans like the Atlantic and Indian Ocean. Taylor's continental drift theory was one of the first attempts to explain observations that seemed to support the idea of continental plate movements.
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Plate tectonics and the movement of tectonic plates cause dynamic earth processes like earthquakes and volcanic activity. Evidence from seafloor topography, paleomagnetism, and earthquake patterns provided evidence for plate tectonics and Alfred Wegener's hypothesis of continental drift. There are three types of plate boundaries - divergent where plates pull apart, convergent where they push together, and transform where they slide past each other like the San Andreas fault. Earthquakes are usually caused by the sudden release of built up energy at plate boundaries, and can be used to determine the structure of the Earth's interior. Volcanic eruptions are powered by movement of magma from deep in the lithosphere along
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- 1. CONTINENTAL DRIFT CLASS: L BY: YALIZET A. S.
- 2. What Is The theory of continental drif? Continental drift is the movement of the Earth's, thus appearing to "drift" across the ocean bed… The plates are moving at a speed that has been estimated at 1 to 10 cm per year. Most of the Earth's seismic activity (volcanoes and earthquakes) occurs at the plate boundaries as they interact. The top layers of the plates are called the crust.
- 3. Who thought of this theory and when? Continental drift was a theory that explained how continents shift position on Earth's surface. Set forth in 1912 by Alfred Wegener, a geophysicist and meteorologist. En.wikipedia.org
- 4. What is pangaea? Pangea was a supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras. It formed approximately 300 million years ago and then began to break apart after about 100 million years. www.geolog yclass.org www.teluguaspirant.com
- 5. What are the 3 main pieces of evidence for this theory? Fossil the evidence: * Puzzle the evidence: Rock the evidence: Earthanvir Onmental. Blogspot.com www.rhnet.org Earthscience.wordpress.com