Chapter 23, Problem 12TYK

Summary Introduction

To review:

The continental drift may obliterate the Pacific Ocean many years from now, pushing North America into physical contact with Asia. The types of effects these events have on the organisms living at that time.

Introduction:

The continental drift theory states that the continents of the earth have moved over geological time with respect to each other and they seem to have drifted over the ocean bed. This theory was first given by Abraham Ortelius in 1596. The continental theory was included in the plate tectonic theory, according to which the movement of the continents takes place due to disturbances in the position of the earth’s lithosphere plates.