41. CONTINENTAL DRIFT - Paleontology And Geology Glossary Earth's mantle. plate tectonics The theory of plate tectonics (meaning plate structure ) was developed in the 1960's. This theory http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/glossary/Contdrift.shtml&e=4

Please help keep Enchanted Learning online. Click here for more information on our honor system. $20.00/year or other amount (directly by Credit Card $20.00/year (transaction via PayPal Other Amount (transaction via PayPal ZoomDinosaurs.com Dinosaur and Paleontology Dictionary A B C D ... Z Click on an underlined word for more information on that subject. If the dinosaur or paleontology term you are looking for is not in the dictionary, please e-mail me and I'll add it. CONTINENTAL DRIFT Go to an interactive plate tectonics puzzle Go to a printable quiz on continental drift In 1915, the German geologist and meteorologist Alfred Wegener first proposed the theory of continental drift , which states that parts of the Earth's crust slowly drift atop a liquid core. The fossil record supports and gives credence to the theories of continental drift and plate tectonics. Wegener hypothesized that there was a gigantic supercontinent 200 million years ago, which he named Pangaea , meaning "All-earth". Pangaea started to break up into two smaller supercontinents, called Laurasia and Gondwanaland, during the Jurassic period. By the end of the Cretaceous period, the continents were separating into land masses that look like our modern-day continents. Wegener published this theory in his 1915 book

42. PLATE TECTONICS - Paleontology And Geology Glossary plate tectonics plate tectonics is a theory that explains how the Earth's continentsfloat slowly on the surface, changing both their position and size over http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/glossary/PlateTectonics.shtm

Help save Enchanted Learning: Don't let it go the way of the dinosaurs. Click here for more information on our honor system. $20.00/year or other amount (directly by Credit Card $20.00/year (transaction via PayPal Other Amount (transaction via PayPal ZoomDinosaurs.com Dinosaur and Paleontology Dictionary A B C D ... Z Click on an underlined word for more information on that subject. If the dinosaur or paleontology term you are looking for is not in the dictionary, please e-mail me and I'll add it. PLATE TECTONICS Plate tectonics is a theory that explains how the Earth's continents float slowly on the surface, changing both their position and size over time. The theory was proposed by Alfred Wegener in 1912, but wasn't widely accepted until the 1960's. The theory argues that the Earth's crust (the lithosphere) is broken up into about 10 plates. These plates float on the Earth's upper mantle, which is a partially-molten layer. Major geologic activity occurs at the edges of these plates where they push into one another, pull farther apart, or move sideways with tremendous power. At these rims there are earthquakes, mountain building, and/or volcanic activity. Under the sea (where the Earth's crust is relatively thin but dense) and the plates are moving away from one another, new crust is formed at spreading ridges as lava flows from the upper mantle. This process is called sea-floor spreading, and increases the size of plates. When the rims of the thin, undersea tectonic plates come toward one another, one edge goes under the other (is subducted). This is a subduction zone, where plates get smaller.

43. Geological Society - Teaching Resources - Plate Tectonics And Structural Geology plate tectonics structural geology. Global map of tectonic plates. Crust andLithosphere A short essay on the distinction between crust and lithosphere. http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/template.cfm?name=structural&e=42

44. Oxford Brookes University from NASA. geology plate tectonics. History, mechanisms and animationsof plate tectonics; Hot spots. Images of plate tectonics http://www.brookes.ac.uk/geology/8301/plates.html&e=42

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46. Structural Geology Plate Tectonics Earth's Interior plate tectonics; Structural geology on the Web;Bay Area Faults and Earthquakes; The ABC's of plate tectonics; Gocad. http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Runway/8783/structuralgeology.html&e=42

47. Geology Of Strathcona Park - Plate Tectonics plate tectonics The Earth's surface is not a static unchanging place.In addition to the observable processes happening around us http://www.em.gov.bc.ca/Mining/Geolsurv/Publications/InfoCirc/IC1995-7/tectonics

48. UNB GEOLOGY 1001 Lecture 10 - Plate Tectonics I UNB geology 1001 Lecture 10 plate tectonics I. In lecture 3 we discussed theplate tectonic model and the forces that are thought to drive plate movement. http://www.unb.ca/courses/geol1001a/lec-10.htm&e=42

49. UNB GEOLOGY 1001 Lecture 11 - Plate Tectonics II UNB geology 1001 Lecture 10 plate tectonics II. This lecture dealtwith some additional aspects of the basics of plate tectonics. http://www.unb.ca/courses/geol1001a/lec-11.htm&e=42

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52. Houghton Mifflin College Inside geology plate tectonics Creating Oceans and Continents Lecture LinksRelated Links News Current Events Organizations and Magazines http://college.hmco.com/geology/resources/geologylink/toc/topic12.html&e=42

53. BC Education - Geology 12 - Internal Processes And Structures ( geology 12 Internal Processes and Structures (plate tectonics). plate tectonics;Volcanoes; Where Terranes Collide The geology of Western Canada. Software http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/irp/esg/12intpla.htm&e=42

54. RockWare- Plate Tectonics And How The Earth Works Geology Study For advanced geology students. plate tectonics and how the Earth Works is designedto aid advanced students in the geological sciences in visualizing and http://www.rockware.com/catalog/pages/platetectonics.html&e=42

55. Geology Today - Chapter 4 - Plate Tectonics Preview of Chapter 4 Chapter 4 plate tectonics. From geology Today, Second Edition,by Murck and Skinner, by arrangement with the publisher John Wiley and Sons http://www.earthscape.org/l2/wil01/&e=42

56. Plate Tectonics - Tectonic Plates Theory Tectonic plates are section pieces of the Earth's lithosphere. This activity demonstrates where earthquak Category Kids and Teens School Time geology plate Movements......plate tectonics Tectonic plates Theory. Tectonic plates are theouter layer of the Earth, the lithosphere. Occasionally at the http://www.eoascientific.com/interactive/tectonic_plate_theory_plate_tectonics_m

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58. Geology 304 Plate Tectonics Office Room 9, 101 geology Building, phone 8849616. Overview. This courseis designed to cover the basics of the theory of plate tectonics. http://www.missouri.edu/~geolwww/faculty/eric_sandvol/course/GEOL304.htm&e=42

59. Red Colony.com - Geology - Plate Tectonics Do plate tectonics exist on Mars? More Information geology. BY JULIA CASEY. http://www.redcolony.com/geology/tectonics.html&e=42

60. Earth Floor Plate Tectonics The theory of plate tectonics has done for geology what Charles Darwin'stheory of evolution did for biology. It provides geology http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/msese/earthsysflr/plates1.html&e=42

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