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Alfred wegener
Continental drift W/ evidence
Coal deposits
Sedimentary rocks
Continental crust
Thick 4 byo
Continental drift
Continents once joined together as a supercontinent Wgegener
Convection current
Transfer of thermal energy by movement of heated material from one to another
Convergent boundaries
Tectonic plates moving toward each other
Divergent boundaries
Pull apart
Isochron
Line where points have the same age
Lystrasausus
Couldn’t swim cause long distance
Magnetic reversals
Occurs when glow of the outer core changes
Magnometer
Detects small changes in magnetic field
Mosasaurs
And aquatic reptile but did not like salt water
Mid ocean ridge
Found in ocean basins 65,000 KM
Oceanic crust
Thin 180 myo
Paleomagnetism
Study of history magnetic field
Ridge push
The process of weight pushing the oceanic plate toward trenches
Rift valley
Formed When continental crust begins to separate
Seafloor spreading
Siri that explains how new ocean crust is formed
Transform boundaries
When two plates slide horizontally past each other
Tectonic plate
Huge pieces of crust in rigid upper mantle that fit together to cover earth
Sonar
Echo sounding method that uses waves to measure distance