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Plate Tectonic Theory……. Why Alfred Wegener thought of it……
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Continental Fit……
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Glacial Deposits……
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Matching Geology
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Matching fossils
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Alfred Wegener needed a mechanism to move the continents………. Sea Floor Spreading
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Discovery of mid-oceanic ridge……
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Symmetric magnetic anomalies adjacent to mid-ocean ridge axis…..
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Figure A-5a and b Paleomagnetism – magnetic signature locked in rocks
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Magnetic Reversals
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Age of ocean crust……
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Figure 4-5 Global pattern of earthquakes
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Figure 9.14 Global pattern of volcanoes – Ring of Fire
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