Pangaea Many people believe that Alfred Wegener invented the theory of continental drift‚ but he didn’t. He just played a major role in proving it. As early as 1620‚ people like Francis Bacon were noticing how similar the west coast of Africa and the east coast of South America was‚ and how they appeared to fit together perfectly. In 1800‚ a German botanist‚ Alexander Von Humbolt‚ came up with the theory of continental drift. He also noticed how Africa and South America seemed to fit together
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Millions of years ago Pangaea is what was believed to be‚ and now has evidence to support‚ the first continent on earth. It is referred to as the super continent as all existing continents were connected to it. In Greek‚ Pangaea is defined as “all the earth”; the man who came up with theory was Alfred Wegener. Wegener had a PhD in astronomy but always had an interest in geoscience. “Wegener was browsing in the university library when he came across a scientific paper that listed fossils of identical
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The Pangaea Theory The Pangea theory describes that all continents were joined together in one enormous land mass millions of years ago. Later on the continents broke apart and start drifting in opposite directions and still continued to make another arrangement. In 1912‚ Alfred Wegner‚ a German meteorologist and geologist gave the hypothesis the all the continents were joined together in a single continental land mass surrounded by a single ocean (Panthalassa) Late Paleozoic times. The Wegner
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Pangaea: The Ancient Supercontinent Throughout Earth’s history‚ fragments of continental crust have floated across the planet’s surface‚ pushed and pulled by plate tectonic motion. At times in the geologic past‚ these fragments (what we may now call continents) came together to form one large supercontinent‚ only to be broken apart once again by tectonic forces. The cycle of supercontinent construction and destruction took hundreds of millions of years. The most recently created supercontinent
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situated the way they are today? Could there have been one supercontinent that over time broke off into the continents we know now? Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines Pangaea as a hypothetical land area believed to have once connected the landmasses of the southern hemisphere with those of the northern hemisphere (Definition of Pangaea). This theory‚ discovered by Alfred Wegener‚ was known as the drift theory. Wegener used the fit of the continents‚ the distribution of fossils‚ a similar sequence of
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Earth’s Oceans stems from plate movement that occurred on Earth. There is a theory that all the continents were once all one big piece of land named Pangaea‚ and over millions and millions of years the land of Pangaea started to split apart into many different continents. It divided Panthalassa‚ the large global ocean that surrounded the supercontinent Pangaea‚ into many different oceans instead of just one big one and now we have many various oceans around the world. 2) How did volcanoes affect the
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Alfred Wegener started a proposal of continental drift that simply stated that there was once a supercontinent called Pangaea. He believed that 200 million years ago the continent began breaking into smaller continents which began the layout of where they lie now. Many people and geologists rejected Wegener?s idea especially the North American geologists due to most of his evidence to back his proposal up had been gathered from Southern continents. Evidence that Wegener had listed to support his
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Gravity segregation is not a drive mechanism. 6. The supercontinent Pangaea started to break up about 200 million years ago. Are most hydrocarbon reservoirs in rocks that are younger than the start of the breakup‚ or older? (5 points) Most reservoirs were formed in the Jurassic and Cretaceous period. The age of these periods are less the 200 million years old. Therefore‚ the reservoir rocks are younger than the start of the Pangaea breakup. 7. Explain the main driving force behind Plate Tectonics
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years ago. The more specific date for the beginning of the separation of the continent Gondwanaland is around 245 to 208 million years ago. Between these two periods all seven of the present-day continents probably formed a single landmass called Pangaea. Gondwanaland is named after the Upper Paleozoic and Mesozoic formations of the Gondwana district of central India‚ which display a number of shared geologic features (the "Gondwana beds"). There are also some other evidence such as: the occurrence
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large Atlantic Ocean between South America and Africa‚ scientists and geologists are capable of stating the such low possibility of how animals (plants) can cross the Ocean. In other words‚ they organisms have once evolved in one large mass of land (Pangaea). Lastly‚ the ice resembles in several continents. Everyone is aware that a continental ice sheet covered parts of South America‚ southern Africa‚ India‚ and southern Australia about 300 million years ago. If this is possible‚ the Atlantic Ocean must
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