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Evidence supporting Continental Drift

Evidence supporting Continental Drift. What is missing…. Continents are MASSIVE Continents DO NOT float on the ocean Unless the whole 8 th grade girls basketball team has turned into superheroes overnight …pushing the continents around…. What force can move a continent?!?.

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Evidence supporting Continental Drift

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  1. Evidence supporting Continental Drift

  2. What is missing…. Continents are MASSIVE • Continents DO NOT float on the ocean • Unless the whole 8th grade girls basketball team has turned into superheroes overnight …pushing the continents around… What force can move a continent?!?

  3. Divergent Boundaries Mid-Ocean Ridge Divergent Boundaries The place new lithosphere is made.

  4. Mid Ocean Ridge Older oceanic crustpushed out of the way by magma Magma cools to make sliver ofNEW oceanic crust process is called SEA-FLOOR SPREADING

  5. Age of oceanic crust

  6. Iceland – evidence of Divergent Boundary above sea level

  7. How do divergent boundaries cause convergent boundaries?

  8. Fence for Sheep in California

  9. 1906 California Earthquake

  10. More Damage, California 1906The photo isn’t crooked, the buildings are

  11. Aerial view of San Andreas fault, Point Reyes, CA

  12. Another transform boundary Earthquake damage in Gölcük, Turkey 2002

  13. Putting it all together!

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