Pangaea Colliding Plates Objectives –Explain how plate tectonics accounts for the movement of continents –Compare and contrast divergent, convergent.
From the time maps of the globe became available, people wondered about the arrangement of the continents and oceans. Hundreds of years later, valid explanations.
Plate tectonics PLATETECTONICSPLATETECTONICS PLATETECTONICSPLATETECTONICS.
F UNDAMENTAL S OF E NVIRONMENT. Environment : Meaning The word Environment has been derived from the French word ‘environner’ ; to encircle, or to surround.
Looking at the Earth Chapter 2. Nebular Hypothesis.
The Big Bang theory accounts for the origin of AOnly Earth. BOur solar system. COur galaxy DThe entire universe.
Geological Hazards Volcanoes, Earthquakes, and Tsunami Session 3.
PANGAEA. ALFRED WEGENER German climatologist and geophysicist who, in 1915, published an expanded version of his 1912 book The Origin of Continents.
Evidence for Movement of Continents. Biggest obstacles to acceptance You can not see the continent move You can not feel the motion of the continent Yet.
Aim 20: What is the geological theory of Pangaea? What is plate tectonics? HW: Read p38 to 40 in your textbook then answer #2 a. b. and c. on p 43. Do.
The continental rifting process a q Kk. Subduction Continental Crust Oceanic Crust Accretionary Prism Volcanic Arc Trench RiftingSpreading Center Granite.
THE SHAPING PROCESSES OF OUR EARTH. CONTINENTAL DRIFT “Father” of this theory is Alfred Wegener.