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1 paź 2024 · Plate tectonics - Continental Drift, Subduction, Earthquakes: The strikingly similar Paleozoic sedimentary sequences on all southern continents and also in India are an example of evidence that supports continental drift.
16 wrz 2024 · Continental drift, large-scale horizontal movement of continents relative to one another and to the ocean basins during one or more episodes of geologic time. This concept was an important precursor to the development of the theory of plate tectonics, which incorporates it.
Continental drift is the theory, originating in the early 20th century, that Earth's continents move or drift relative to each other over geologic time. [1] The theory of continental drift has since been validated and incorporated into the science of plate tectonics , which studies the movement of the continents as they ride on plates of the ...
Through the theory of continental drift, humans have been able to figure out how the earth’s crust moves and the causes of volcanoes, earthquakes, oceanic trenches, formation of mountain ranges and other geological occurrences.
DESCRIBE CONTINENTAL DRIFT INCLUDING SUPPORTING EVIDENCE. [Insert brief introductory statement here.]
24 lip 2019 · Continental drift was a revolutionary scientific theory developed in the years 1908-1912 by Alfred Wegener (1880-1930), a German meteorologist, climatologist, and geophysicist, that put forth the hypothesis that the continents had all originally been a part of one enormous landmass or supercontinent about 240 million years ago before breaking ...
20 lis 2015 · Wegener had envisioned continental crust as moving through the underlying oceanic crust, much like an iceberg drifts through water. As possible mechanisms, he suggested centrifugal force related to Earth's rotation, and (perhaps) astronomical forces related to precession of Earth's axis.
