Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Pangaea- The SUPER-continent
Pangaea was a super-continent created around 250 million years ago in the Permian period. When this broke apart, it became our modern continents. This is due to continental drift, a theory proposed by Alfred Wegener publicly in 1912 that the continents once were connected, therefore they have too move around the face of the Earth. This was somewhat correct, but is not the generally accepted. The evidence is the fossil finds on two different continents, and fossilized plants on two different continents. This could only be possible if these continents were connected.
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