1. Breakup and Assembly of Pangaea

7. Locating the Continents
Since 200 m.y. ago: Magnetic Stripes
In Pangaea: Fit of Edges
Before Pangaea
Fossil Assemblages
Collision History
Climate Indicators
Paleomagnetism

8. Magnetic Dip
The earth’s magnetic field has both a horizontal and a vertical direction

9. Locating the Ancient Continents
Paleomagnetism gives paleolatitudes accurate to about 10 degrees
There is no way of determining paleolongitude
The further back we go, the more pieces are unaccounted for

10. and data

11. Assembly of Pangaea

12. Rodinia