EVIDENCES OF PLATE

MOVEMENT
 CONTINENTAL DRIFT THEORY

 Alfred Wegener
 1912
 The continents were
just a single landmass
200 million years ago
 Pangea
 EVIDENCES OF PLATE
MOVEMENT
 Continental Jigsaw Puzzle
 Fossil Evidences
 Rock Layers
 Coal Deposits
 Seafloor spreading
 CONTINENTAL JIGSAW PUZZLE

 The edge of one continent

matches with the edge of
another continent
 FOSSIL EVIDENCES

 Same Fossils
were located on
different
continents
 ROCK LAYERS

 Rocks from the

edges of
continents have
the same
structure
 COAL DEPOSITS
 Coal beds were formed due to compaction and
decomposition of swamp plants
 Discovered in South America, Africa, Indian
subcontinent, Southeast Asia, and even Antarctica
 The current location of Antarctica could not
sustain life most especially plants
 COAL DEPOSITS

 Antarctica once had a tropical climate

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