Plate tectonics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Plate tectonics (from the Greek τέκτων; tektōn , meaning "builder" or "mason") is a theory which describes the large scale motions of Earth's lithosphere. The theory builds on the older concepts of...
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What process helps explain how continents drift? Why do people not notice that the continents drift? What causes drifting continents played in evolution? What might have caused the continents to drift apart? What is the primary thermal Force that cause continents to drift?
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As new material is added at the ridges, the tectonic plates on either side move apart. Over time this causes the continents located on the plates to "drift' apart.
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Hundreds of million years ago, Pangaea broke up and the pieces began to drift apart. ... The reason that this idea, which seems so compelling, was not initially accepted was that no one could imagine how things like continents could move around (or more precisely, what could push continents around).
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zebu.uoregon.edu/~imamura/121/lecture-9/tectonic.html
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How did the continents drift?; Why the continents suddenly started to drift about 300 million years ... The continents may have been drifting for much longer; New evidence with respect to tectonic plate movements, suggests that the continents may always have been drifting apart, then together again. When continents collide,
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www.seafriends.org.nz/oceano/oceans.htm
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C. the idea that coacervate formation causes continents to drift apart slowly on their crustal plates; D. observations that the sea floor is slowly spreading away from oceanic ridges due to thermal convection in the mantle;
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generates excessive DNA, which eventually causes the nucleus to divide. ... the idea that coacervate formation causes continents to drift apart slowly on their crustal plates.
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He believed that Pangaea was intact until the late Carboniferous period, about 300 million years ago, when it began to break up and drift apart. However, Wegener's hypothesis lacked a geological mechanism to explain how the continents could drift across the earths surface as he proposed.
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www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/geology/techist.html
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"What causes sea-floor spreading and continental drift?" - Find the answer to this question and millions more on Yahoo!7 Answers. ... As new material is added at the ridges, the tectonic plates on either side move apart. Over time this causes the continents located on the plates to "drift' apart.
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