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What continent is believed to be the site of the earliest giant continental land mass on earth?
Pangaea.
Why wegeners ideas about continental drift were not believe?
His ideas where not generally believed because he was an astronomer and meteorologist. Also scientists believed the earth was shrivelled like an old apple.
What is plate tectonics continental drift?
Plate tectonics is the idea that the Earth is made up of plates which move. Therefore the continents drift ever so slightly. The Earth was once made up of one big continent called pangea.
What layer of the earth makes up the continental plates?
The continental lithosphere.
Why does the Pangaea supercontinent no longer exist?
The Pangaea super-continent no longer exists because it has broken up into the continents that exist today, as a result of continental drift caused by convection currents in the earth's mantle.
What continent is believed to be the site of the earliest giant continental land mass on earth?
Pangaea.
What Largest continental in world?
The largest continent on earth is Asia.
What is the Part of the earth or continent that drips gently downward under water?
The part of a continent that dips gently downward and is underwater is called the continental shelf. When a continent drops steeply in to the ocean it is called a continental slope.
Was earth made up of a single continent that later separated into several continents?
That is what's believed, yes. The super-continent is called Pangaea/Pangea.
Why wegeners ideas about continental drift were not believe?
His ideas where not generally believed because he was an astronomer and meteorologist. Also scientists believed the earth was shrivelled like an old apple.
What are the seven continents called?
lithisphere if you are talking earth science pangea if you mean the super continent before continental drift(also earth science i guess lol)
What is the Victorian idea of Clay Continent reflecting the soul?
The Victorian idea of clay continent is... what you do on earth is how your soul looks and acts. If you are deformed the Victorians believed so was yous soul.
Why does the continent move over time?
It's caused by continental drift, which is the plates of the Earth's crust moving. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_drift
What is a Earth crust?
the continental crust is the plate crust formed under the continent (less density) as opposed to oceanic crustformed under the ocean(higher density)
How old is Antarctica?
Antarctica is 3 billion years old. It is believed to be the oldest continent. Antarctica is as old as the Earth itself
What did medieval inventions?
Some things are decimal nuaral, invention of zero, earlist known modern language, and earth goes around the sun?
What is the continental crust of the earth?
what is the continental crust
