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 MODULE 5:
Evidences of
Plate Movements

DANETA JEAN C. REALUBIN

Teacher III
 Causes of
Plate
Movement:
✔Convection
Current/Mantle
Convection
✔Slab Push
✔Ridge Pull
Evidences of Plate
Movements:
1. Continental Drift Theory
2. Seafloor Spreading Theory
3. Magnetic Reversal
•Alfred Wegener
proposed that
the continents
were once one
large landmass
called
PANGAEA
which means
“All Earth”.
 1.Continental Jigsaw Puzzle

Evidences of
CONTINENTAL
DRIFT THEORY:
 2. FOSSILS
Similar fossils found in places he thought were once
connected.

Evidences of
CONTINENTAL
DRIFT THEORY:
 3. ROCKS
Similar layers of
Evidences of rock were formed
in Antarctica,
CONTINENTAL Australia, South
America, Africa,
DRIFT THEORY: and India before
Pangaea broke
apart.
 4. Glaciers
Glaciers carve rocks and leave marks as they move. In
this evidence, scientists can determine the direction of
movement of each continent.
Evidences of
CONTINENTAL
DRIFT THEORY:
 5. Coal Deposits
 Coal beds were formed from the compaction and
decomposition of swamp plants that lived million years
ago.
Evidences of The evidences that
CONTINENTAL Wegener provided were not
DRIFT THEORY: accepted by the scientific
society because of the lack
of explanation how this
drifting took place.
 Evidence of
SEAFLOOR
SPREADING Harry Hess together with
THEORY Robert Dietz suggested an
explanation to the seafloor
spreading theory.
Findings that support Seafloor Spreading Theory:
1. Rocks are younger at the mid-ocean ridge.
2. Rocks far from the mid-ocean ridge are older.
Findings that support Seafloor Spreading Theory:
3. Sediments are thinner at the ridge.
 Findings that
support Seafloor
Spreading
Theory:
4. Rocks at the
ocean floor are
younger than
those at the
continents.
 •Seafloor spreading was
Evidences of strengthened with the
MAGNETIC discovery that the
magnetic rocks near
REVERSAL ridge follow a pattern. the
 •A magnetic compass
tells us the direction
Evidences of on Earth.
MAGNETIC
REVERSAL
Evidences of
MAGNETIC
REVERSAL
 •Magnetic Reversal also
Evidences of called magnetic ‘flip’ of
the Earth. This is due to
MAGNETIC the change in the
REVERSAL direction of flow in the
outer core.
 • Magnetic reversals
happened many times in
the past. The occurrence
Evidences of of magnetic reversals can
MAGNETIC be explained through the
magnetic patterns in
REVERSAL magnetic rocks, especially
those found in the ocean
floor.
 • Over the last 10 million
years, there has been an
average of 4 to 5 reversals
Evidences of per million years. The
MAGNETIC stripes on both sides are of
equal size and polarity
REVERSAL which seemed to be mirror
images across the ocean
ridge.
Evidences of •What does this indicate?
MAGNETIC It indicates that indeed,
REVERSAL the seafloor is spreading.