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    Group 4: Villaluz, Suzanne P. Bulatao, Athena Huang, Zoe Johnstone, Nicola Marfal, Emed Moya, Robb Reyes, Zoe

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    Group 4's presentation included evidence from rocks, coal deposits, seafloor spreading, and magnetic reversals that support continental drift and plate tectonics. Specifically: 1) Rock formations and fossil findings in Africa and South America match as if they were once connected. 2) Coal beds found in scattered locations also indicate continents were once joined. 3) Studies in the 1950s-60s found mid-ocean ridges and evidence of ongoing creation of new seafloor. 4) Magnetic patterns in ocean rocks provided evidence that the continents have moved over time.

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    Group 4's presentation included evidence from rocks, coal deposits, seafloor spreading, and magnetic reversals that support continental drift and plate tectonics. Specifically: 1) Rock formations and fossil findings in Africa and South America match as if they were once connected. 2) Coal beds found in scattered locations also indicate continents were once joined. 3) Studies in the 1950s-60s found mid-ocean ridges and evidence of ongoing creation of new seafloor. 4) Magnetic patterns in ocean rocks provided evidence that the continents have moved over time.

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    Group 4's presentation included evidence from rocks, coal deposits, seafloor spreading, and magnetic reversals that support continental drift and plate tectonics. Specifically: 1) Rock formations and fossil findings in Africa and South America match as if they were once connected. 2) Coal beds found in scattered locations also indicate continents were once joined. 3) Studies in the 1950s-60s found mid-ocean ridges and evidence of ongoing creation of new seafloor. 4) Magnetic patterns in ocean rocks provided evidence that the continents have moved over time.

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    Group 4: Villaluz, Suzanne P. Bulatao, Athena Huang, Zoe Johnstone, Nicola Marfal, Emed Moya, Robb Reyes, Zoe

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    GROUP 4:

    VILLALUZ,SUZANNE P.
    BULATAO, ATHENA
    HUANG, ZOE
    JOHNSTONE, NICOLA
    MARFAL, EMED
    MOYA, ROBB
    REYES, ZOE
    VIDEO 1
    VIDEO 2
    Evidence From Rocks
    • Fossils found in rocks support the Continental
    Drift Theory. The rocks themselves also provide
    evidence that continents drifted apart from each
    other.

    • Rock formations in Africa line up with that in


    South America as if it was a long mountain
    range.
    • How come these rock layers
    in different continents line
    up together with layers that
    exactly matched?

    • The folded cape mountains


    of South America and Africa
    line up perfectly as if they
    were once a long mountain
    range.
    Coal Deposits
    • Coal beds were formed
    from the compaction and
    decomposition of swamp
    plants that lived million
    years ago.
    • These were discovered in
    South America, Africa,
    Indian subcontinent,
    Southeast Asia, and even in
    Antartica
    SEAFLOOR
    SPREADING
    During the 1950’s
    and 1960’s, new
    techniques and
    modern gadgets
    enabled
    scientist to
    make better
    observations
    and gather new
    information
    about the ocean
    floor.
    Scientist
    found a
    system of
    ridges also
    called mid-
    oceanic
    ridges.
    Subduction Zone
    2 oceanic plates collide or oceanic plate and a continental plate
    collide.
    • The rate of formation of a
    new seafloor is not always
    as fast a s the destruction
    of the old seafloor at the
    subduction zone.
    • This explains why the
    Pacific ocean is getting
    smaller and why the
    Atlantic ocean is getting
    wider.
    If subduction is faster than seafloor spreading, the
    ocean shrinks.

    When the seafloor spreading is greater than the


    subduction, then the ocean gets wider.

    Rate of formation of a new seafloor


    Rocks are younger at the mid-
    ocean ridge.
    Findings
    that Rocks far from the mid-ocean
    ridge are older.
    support
    Seafloor Sediments are thinner at the
    spreading ridge.
    Theory: Rocks at the ocean floor are
    younger than those at the
    continents.
    The seafloor spreading theory contradicts a part of the
    continental drift theory.

    According to this theory, continents moved through unmoving


    oceans and that larger, sturdier continents broke through the
    oceanic crust.
    Whereas, the seafloor spreading shows that the ocean is the
    actual site of tectonic activity.
    Magnetic Reversal

    • is also called magnetic flip of


    the earth, it happens when
    the North Pole transforms into
    the south pole and vice versa.
    It is due to the change in the
    direction of flow in the outer
    core.
    • The occurrence of MAGNETIC REVERSALS an be explained
    through the magnetic patterns in magnetic rocks,
    especially those found in the ocean floor. When lava
    solidifies, iron bearing minerals crystalize. As these
    crystalize, these tiny minerals behave like compasses and
    align with the earth’s magnetic field.
    • So when the magnetic field change so does the polarity in
    the rocks. This allowed scientists visualize the magnetic
    stripes in the floor.
    • Over the last 10 million years, there
    has been an average of 4 to 5
    Magnetic reversals per million
    years. New rock are added to the
    ocean floor at the ridge at
    approximately equal amounts on
    both sides of the ocean ridge. The
    stripes on both sides are equal size
    and polarity which seemed to be
    mirror images across the ocean
    ridge. So what does this indicate? It
    is indeed ocean spreading.
    THANK YOU

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