chapter 17 plate tectonics. drifting continents: early observations cartographers were the first...
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Alfred Wegener German meteorologist/climatologist 1912: proposed the idea of continental drift –Continents started as “Pangea” 200 million years ago –Slowly moving apart to present positionsTRANSCRIPT
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Chapter 17
Plate Tectonics
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Drifting Continents: Early Observations
• Cartographers were the first people to notice matching continents
Antonio Snider-Pelligrini (1858)
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Alfred Wegener
• German meteorologist/climatologist• 1912: proposed the idea of continental drift
– Continents started as “Pangea” 200 million years ago
– Slowly moving apart to present positions
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Evidence for Continental Drift
• Matching coastlines• Matching rock formations/mineral deposits
separated by oceans• Climate evidence: fossil ferns
Glossopteris) found in Antarctica, South America, and India
• Matching fossils on widely separated continents (Cynognathus, Lystrasaurus, Mesosaurus)
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Fossil Evidence
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Flaws of Continental Drift
• Did not explain the immense forces required to move continents long distances
• No evidence of continents “plowing through” the ocean crust
• Continental Drift was rejected until the early 1960s, when these flaws were resolved
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Seafloor Spreading
• Technology advances in the 1940s and 1950s led to more detailed ocean floor mapping
• Magnetometer: detects changes in magnetic fields
• Sonar: found mid-ocean ridges and deep sea trenches
• Interesting patterns in age of rock samples
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Magnetic Patterns and Seafloor Spreading
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Age of Ocean Crust and Seafloor Spreading
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Sediment Depth and Seafloor Spreading
• Evidence for seafloor spreading corrected a flaw of Wegener’s model of continental drift
• Continents ride along while ocean crust moves away from mid ocean ridges
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Types of Plate Boundaries: Divergent
• Plates moving apart• Mid-ocean ridge• On land: rift valley
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Types of Plate Boundaries: Convergent
• Continent-continent• Ocean-continent• Ocean-ocean
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Types of Plate Boundaries: Transform
• Plates slide horizontally past each other
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What Causes Plates to Move?