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    Continental Drift: "The Earth Is All What We Have in Common" - Wendell Berry

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    The document discusses the history and evidence for the theory of continental drift proposed by Alfred Wegener in 1912. Wegener hypothesized that the continents were once joined together in a supercontinent called Pangaea, which later broke apart and drifted to their current positions. His idea was controversial until the 1960s when ocean floor mapping and heat flow measurements supported seafloor spreading and plate tectonics, reviving the concept of drifting continents. The key evidence Wegener cited included: the matching shapes of continental coastlines, matching fossil distributions, and matching rock formations found across separated continents.

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    Continental Drift: "The Earth Is All What We Have in Common" - Wendell Berry

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    The document discusses the history and evidence for the theory of continental drift proposed by Alfred Wegener in 1912. Wegener hypothesized that the continents were once joined together in a supercontinent called Pangaea, which later broke apart and drifted to their current positions. His idea was controversial until the 1960s when ocean floor mapping and heat flow measurements supported seafloor spreading and plate tectonics, reviving the concept of drifting continents. The key evidence Wegener cited included: the matching shapes of continental coastlines, matching fossil distributions, and matching rock formations found across separated continents.

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    The document discusses the history and evidence for the theory of continental drift proposed by Alfred Wegener in 1912. Wegener hypothesized that the continents were once joined together in a supercontinent called Pangaea, which later broke apart and drifted to their current positions. His idea was controversial until the 1960s when ocean floor mapping and heat flow measurements supported seafloor spreading and plate tectonics, reviving the concept of drifting continents. The key evidence Wegener cited included: the matching shapes of continental coastlines, matching fossil distributions, and matching rock formations found across separated continents.

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    Continental Drift: "The Earth Is All What We Have in Common" - Wendell Berry

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    The document discusses the history and evidence for the theory of continental drift proposed by Alfred Wegener in 1912. Wegener hypothesized that the continents were once joined together in a supercontinent called Pangaea, which later broke apart and drifted to their current positions. His idea was controversial until the 1960s when ocean floor mapping and heat flow measurements supported seafloor spreading and plate tectonics, reviving the concept of drifting continents. The key evidence Wegener cited included: the matching shapes of continental coastlines, matching fossil distributions, and matching rock formations found across separated continents.

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    N

    W E
    Continental S

    Drift
    “The earth is all what we have in
    common”
    -Wendell Berry
    Objectives:

    Discuss the history behind the Theory of Continental Drift;

    Describe the Continental Drift Theory; and

    Enumerate and explain the evidence used to support the idea


    of drifting continents
    What is continental drift?
    Theory that explains how continents shift
    position on Earth's surface
    ALFRED WEGENER
    The originator of the theory of continental drift by
    hypothesizing in 1912 that the continents are slowly drifting
    around the Earth
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    According to Alfred Wegener
    a single
    supercontinent,
    Pangaea, separated
    into the current
    continents and moved
    across Earth’s surface
    to their present
    locations

    .
    According to Alfred Wegener
    He published his work
    through a book
    entitled “The Origin of
    Continents and
    Oceans”
    in 1915

    .
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    But some scientists were
    doubtful about his theory…

    • Until the 1950s-60s, it was


    still widely held that that
    continents and ocean basins
    had fixed geographic
    positions. As such, scientists
    were reluctant to believe
    that continents
    could drift.
    Until in 1960s
    OCEANOGRAPHY

    The ocean floor was


    characterized by deep
    depressions called
    trenches and a
    network of ridges
    that encircled the globe.
    These topographic
    data,
    together with heat
    flow measurements,
    led to the emergence
    of the Seafloor
    Spreading
    Hypothesis which
    revived interest in
    Alfred Wegener’s idea
    of drifting continents.
    What caused the
    continents to drift away?
    Today, we know that the
    continents rest
    on massive slabs of rock
    called tectonic plates
    and these plates are
    always moving and
    interacting to each
    other.
    EVIDENCE
    SUPPORTING
    CONTINENTAL
    DRIFT

    1. The fit of the continents


    2. Similarity in geologic
    units and structures
    3. Fossil match
    4. Glacial and paleoclimate
    evidence
    The fit of the
    continent
    Similarity in
    geologic units
    and structures
    Fossil Match
    Glossopteris Click icon to add picture

    flora
    (seed fern)
    had large seeds and grew only
    in subpolar regions, but fossils
    were widely distributed over
    Australia, Africa, India and
    South America (later on
    discovered in
    Antarctica)
    Cynognathus
    and
    Lystrosaurus

    land reptiles whose fossils


    were found across South
    America, Africa, India and
    Antarctica.
    Mesosaurus

    a freshwater reptile (cannot


    cross oceans) whose fossils
    were found only in
    black shales about 260
    million years of age
    (Permian) in South Africa
    and Brazil.
    END SLIDE
    Thank you for listening.
    Please prepare one-fourth sheet
    of paper for a short quiz.
    1- 6 True or False

    1. Alfred Wegener proposed that a single supercontinent, separated into


    the current continents and moved across Earth’s surface to their present
    locations.

    2. In the evidences supporting the continental drift, opponents of Alfred


    Wegener concluded that there are no fossil match between landmasses.

    3. In 1915, Alfred Wegener published his works in a newspaper about


    the origin of continents and oceans.
    4. Pangaea came from an ancient Greek word meaning “first
    land”
    5. Seafloor spreading is a geologic process in which tectonic
    plates—large slabs of Earth's lithosphere—split apart from
    each other. 
    6. The ocean floor was characterized by deep depressions
    called trenches and a network of ridges that encircled the
    globe.

    7- 10 ENUMERATE the 4 evidences supporting the continental


    drift.

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