Continental Drift and Pangaea (1 janv. 299280032 av. J.-C. – 1 janv. 293700027 av. J.-C.)

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Continental drift was the way in which the earliest geologists believed continents moved and changed over time. It was later discovered that the movement of land masses was due to plate tectonics. Alfred Wegener, utilized biology, botany, and geology to describe a “supercontinent” called Pangaea. Pangaea was a single landmass of all the present day continents connected as one approximately 200 mya during the Triassic. Due to the findings of fossilized mesosaurus, it was explained that although fossils were found in southern Africa and South America, that these land masses were once connected. Thus allowing the freshwater reptile to be present within one system instead of across an ocean. It explained fossils in habitats that they were not adapted for. After Wegener completed stratigraphy of the rocky formations; the discovery of their layers of similar and seemingly “matching” geology pointed towards a singular landmass.

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