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History Assignment Term 1 Pangaea

History Assignment Term 1 Pangaea. Description Of Pangaea. Pangaea was a supercontinent that formed around 300 million years ago. It began to break apart around 200 million years ago.

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History Assignment Term 1 Pangaea

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  1. History Assignment Term 1 Pangaea

  2. Description Of Pangaea Pangaea was a supercontinent that formed around 300 million years ago. It began to break apart around 200 million years ago. The name Pangaea is taken from the Ancient Greek word pan meaning "entire", and Gaia meaning "Mother Earth". The single global ocean which surrounded Pangaea is called Panthalassa which means entire ocean. The name Pangea was made up during a conference in 1927 discussing Alfred Wegener's theory of continental drift.

  3. Description Of Pangea – Continental Drift Continental drift is the movement of the Earth's continents throughout the world by appearing to drift across the ocean bed. This theory was built on to become what is now known as plate tectonics. http://ees.as.uky.edu/sites/default/files/elearning/module04swf.swf

  4. Fossil Correlation & Paleoclimatology Fossil Correlation The fossils of Mosasaurus, a freshwater reptile rather like a small crocodile, found both in Brazil and South Africa, are one example of fossil correlation; another is the discovery of the reptile Lystrosaurus. Fossils from Lystrosaurus where found from rocks of the same age from locations in South America, Africa, and Antarctica. Paleoclimatology Paleoclimatology is the study of changes in climate taken on the scale of the entire history of Earth. It uses a variety of methods from the Earth and life sciences (biology, geology and anthropology) to obtain data previously preserved within rocks, sediments, ice sheets, tree rings, corals, shells and microfossils. Glacial deposits were found in South America, Africa, India, and Australia. These continents are presently not in cold climates, therefore must have been in a colder climate in the past and the continents later moved to the positions they are presently in today.

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  6. Palaeoanthropology & the Out Of Africa Theory Palaeoanthropology is the study of the origin of modern humans. The recent African origin of modern humans, known as the "Out of Africa" theory, is the most widely accepted model describing the geographic origin and early migration of anatomically modern humans. Genetic studies and fossil evidence show that modern humans evolved in Africa, between 200,000 and 60,000 years ago, that members of one branch of Homo sapiens left Africa between 125,000 and 60,000 years ago, and over time these humans replaced earlier human populations such as Neanderthals and Homo erectus.

  7. Bibliography http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleoclimatology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_drift http://ees.as.uky.edu/sites/default/files/elearning/module04swf.swf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangaea

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