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    The Supercontinent "Pangaea": Plate Tectonics

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    The document discusses plate tectonics and the supercontinent Pangaea. It describes how Pangaea formed around 245 million years ago before splitting into smaller continents like Laurasia and Gondwana around 180 million years ago. Evidence like matching fossil records between continents supports the idea that continents have drifted apart over geological time.

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    Plate Tectonics

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    The document discusses plate tectonics and the supercontinent Pangaea. It describes how Pangaea formed around 245 million years ago before splitting into smaller continents like Laurasia and Gondwana around 180 million years ago. Evidence like matching fossil records between continents supports the idea that continents have drifted apart over geological time.

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    The Supercontinent "Pangaea": Plate Tectonics

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    The document discusses plate tectonics and the supercontinent Pangaea. It describes how Pangaea formed around 245 million years ago before splitting into smaller continents like Laurasia and Gondwana around 180 million years ago. Evidence like matching fossil records between continents supports the idea that continents have drifted apart over geological time.

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    Plate Tectonics

    The Supercontinent Pangaea


    PLATE TECTONICS

    Why the Earth is Like


    How It Is?
    What Did
    The Earth
    Look Like
    In The
    Past?
    Names of Plates
    Plate Tectonics
    Pieces of the lithosphere that move
    around
    Each plate has a name
    Fit together like jigsaw puzzles
    Float on top of mantle similar to ice
    cubes in a bowl of water
    Continental Drift
    Alfred Wegener 1900s
    Continents were once a single
    land mass that drifted apart.

    Fossils of the same plants and


    animals are found on different
    continents

    Called this supercontinent


    Pangea, Greek for all Earth

    245 Million years ago

    Split again Laurasia &


    Gondwana 180 million years
    ago

    http://members.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/planets/earth/Continents.shtml
    Evidence of Pangea
    Tectonic Plates
    What is the Asthenosphere?
    The plastic layer below the
    lithosphere = asthenosphere
    The plates of the lithosphere float
    on the asthenosphere
    Sea Floor Spreading
    Sea Floor Spreading
    Mid Ocean Ridges underwater mountain
    chains that run through the Earths Basins
    Magma rises to the surface and solidifies
    and new crust forms
    Older Crust is pushed
    farther away from the ridge
    Divergent Boundary
    Arabian and African Plates
    Divergent Boundary
    Iceland

    http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/understanding.html
    Divergent Boundary - Oceanic

    http://www.geology.com
    Review
    Name the 3 main layers of the Earth
    What is a tectonic plate?
    What was Pangea?
    What is Sea-Floor spreading?
    Name the three different types of plate
    boundaries and one location on Earth for each
    one

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