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Drifting Continents

Drifting Continents. Chapter 1 Section 3. Alfred Wegener. Continental Drift All continents were once joined together Single landmass Slowly drifted apart. Pangaea. All lands Existed 300 million yrs ago. Evidence . Land Features Fossils Climate Change. Land Features. I .

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Drifting Continents

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  1. Drifting Continents Chapter 1 Section 3

  2. Alfred Wegener • Continental Drift • All continents were once joined together • Single landmass • Slowly drifted apart

  3. Pangaea • All lands • Existed 300 million yrs ago

  4. Evidence • Land Features • Fossils • Climate Change

  5. Land Features I • Coal mines from N.A. & Europe line up • Mountain ranges from S.A. & Africa line up

  6. Fossils • Fernlike plant (glossopteris) • Fresh Water animals (meosauraus & lystrosaurus)

  7. Climate Change • Tropical features discovered in current arctic conditions

  8. Formation of Mountains • Geologists • Formed by the cooling & shrinking of earth • Wegener • Formed by continents colliding

  9. REJECTION!! • Wegener was REJECTED by his peers • WHY? • He could not explain how/why the continents moved

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