Pangaea Misconceptions

In 1596- Abraham Ortelius took note that the coastlines of the continents seemed to be too fitting together. He initiated a theory that stated that the continents were probably joined at one point in time and were torn apart between Europe and Africa. In the year of 1912, Alfred Wegener stated that the continents were once joined in a supercontinent called Pangea.

2. The theory of “Pangaea” exists suggesting that the continents were once nestled together into one mega-continent. The continents then spread out as drifting islands.

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The plate tectonics theory was made by a German named Alfred Wegener. He stated that a single continent existed about 300 million years ago named Pangaea and that it split into two continents of Laurasia in the north and Gondwanaland in the south. Today’s continents were formed by further splitting of the two masses.

Between 280 million and 225 million years ago, the earth’s previously separated land areas became welded into a landmass called Pangaea. About 120 million years ago, due to the continental drift, this landmass began to separate. It split the old world and the new world apart, which dividing North and South America from Eurasia and Africa. The separation lasted for million years that it fostered divergent evolution. The new world and the old world’s biological evolution followed individual paths, becoming two separate biological worlds. However, after 1492, human voyagers reversed this tendency. In October 1492, Christopher Columbus and his crew landed in Bahamas. After Columbus arrived in

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One break resulted in a new ocean, the North Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic Ocean did not open uniformly; breaking began in the north-central Atlantic. The South Atlantic did not open until the when Laurasia started to rotate clockwise and moved northward with North America to the north, and Eurasia to the south. The clockwise motion of Laurasia led to the closing of the Tethys Ocean.

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If Pangea still existed, there would be many differences. Our culture and political views would be very different. Many historical events wouldn’t have even occurred. Fairfield would be a very different culture. The human race would much different.

2. From the map, we understand that it’s where the surface of the world is really a series of “plates” floating on the magma (lava) layers below the surface. Scientists call the plates, tectonic plates. India is on a separate plate too much of Asia, as is much of what several call the Middle East. Throughout many millions of years what was thought to be one large mass of land has broken up with sections drifting away. Many refer to it as ancient landmass Pangaea. After studying, I learned that Pangaea started breaking up about 200 million years ago. At that time, what was to become India was closer to Africa, Antarctica and Australia. India’s plate broke away and headed north eventually running into the Eurasian plate where

The theory of continental drift was first put forward by Alfred Wegener, a meteorologist and geologist in Germany. The theory stated that the land on Earth’s crust slowly drifted apart. Alfred Wegener formulated the hypothesis that the modern day continents were once combined about 200 million years ago. He called this supercontinent Pangaea meaning “ all-land”. Then, he claimed that Pangaea began to break up into the continents Gondwanaland and Laurasia due to the parts of Pangaea slowly drifting apart. Millions of years later, the modern day 7 continents were formed. There are 4 main pieces of evidence to support Pangaea’s existence. One piece of evidence would be that the modern continents have a puzzle-like fit. If the continents can fit together, it

In the beginning, human beings lacked access into the Western Hemisphere because North and South America became detached, known as the Pangea. The Pangea was fractured due to the powerful forces deep down in earth and it eventually pushed continents apart until the present day. But after two major developments,

Wegener believed that the continents conformed into a full unit at one point, similar to that of a puzzle. This idea of a single, large continent came to be known as Pangea, which in translation, means ‘all-earth.’ Wegner also brought forth the idea that throughout the Jurassic period, Pangea split into two smaller supercontinents, called Laurasia and Gondwanaland. On the other hand, Wegener did not acquire an explanation for how the continents were capable of moving around the planet. Researchers today, however, are able to explain that. For example, Nicholas van der Elst, a seismologist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York, explains that the driving force behind plate tectonics is convection in

While researching what position the continents will be in 250 million years from now, I discovered that most studies support the theory that the continents will once again merge into a supercontinent. There are three main models that most are leaning toward, if this does in fact happen.

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