-
Plates
-
Float
-
rock
- heavy
- semi molten
-
move
- slowly
-
how?
- convection
- mantle
- Continental Drift
-
Plate Tectonic Model
-
who
- Alfred Wegener
- 1912
-
what
-
continents
- united
- pangaea
-
200 million YA
-
split into two
- Laurasia
- North America
- Europe
- Most of Asia
- Gondwanaland
- Australia
- Africa
- india
- South America
-
further fragmented
- plates we know today
-
not accepted
-
scientists
- hostile
- dismissed
-
1963
- accpted
-
Proof
-
Sea Floor Spreading
-
Maurice Ewing
- 1948
-
Mid Atlantic Oceanic Ridge
- young rocks
- middle
- old rocks
- edge
-
Continental Drift
-
Jigsaw
- South America
- Africa
-
fossils
- Mesosaurus
-
found
- South America
- Africa
- 200 million years old
-
rocks
- types
- formation
- structure
- Glacial deposits