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Pangaea Ultima
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Conclusion
Alfred Wegner
What was Pangaea Ultima
What are tectonic plates?
Alfred Wegner
What causes supercontinents to form?
Tectonic plates are plates of rock that shift under the ground making mountains, hills, causing continents to move and many natural disasters, such as earthquakes.
Overall the Pangea was a supercontinent that was formed around 250 million years ago and broke up around 100 million years after that and it consisted of all the continents that now sit on the Earth’s surface.
Wegner was also the person that suggested that all the continents were once joined together to form a supercontinent and then broke apart to form the continents we have now. However his idea was dismissed as he had no good model
The Pangaea was the last supercontinent to form on Earth. It formed around 250 million years ago and broke up around 100 million years after that.
Continental was a theory that explained how Continents shift positions on the Earth’s surface. The idea was put forward by Alfred Wegner, a geophysicist and meteorologist, in 1912.
The process in which continents move is called continential drift. It seems that there is a cycle in which a supercontinent forms and breaks apart every 100-250 million years
The movement of continents is caused by tectonic plates
This theory explained how identical plant and animal fossils could be found on different continents.
When the Pangaea broke up the continents took their current positions on the Earth's surface
Also even though Wegner was wrong on some points he did introduce the idea of continential drift and the Pangaea