Slide 1 Plate Tectonics Horizontal Movement of Earth’s Lithosphere Additional Reading: USGS Plate Tectonics (Pdf) – class web site Slide 2 Learning Objectives Understand…
Plate Tectonics Evidence for Plate Tectonics Seafloor mapping using sonar initiated during World War II provided evidence of drifting continents This caused scientists to…
Slide 1 Plate Tectonics Wegenerâs Continental Drift Hypothesis stated that the continents had once been joined to form a single supercontinent (Pangaea). Wegener proposed…
Slide 1 Earth Science Structure of the earth Tectonics Wegenerâs Continental Drift Hypothesis (1912) stated that the continents had once been joined to form a single supercontinent…
Seismicity and Plate Tectonics Christa G. von Hillebrandt-Andrade Puerto Rico Seismic Network, UPRM Caribbean Training Course in Seismology and Tsunami Warnings St. Augustine,…