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Pangaea Supercontinent
Pangaea (also spelled Pangea or Pangæa) is a theoretical supercontinent that existed about 250 million years ago. Scientists believe all seven continents as they are today were once part of a supercontinent and have slowly moved apart.
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Millions of years ago was Antarctica Australia South America and Africa joined together?
Pangaea was the original super-continent which broke up into Gondwanaland and Laurasia. Gondwanaland consisted of present day Africa, Antarctica, Australia, India and South America and began to break up about 250 million years ago.
Where was Antarctica located in Pangaea?
Antartica was located at the southernmost part of Gondwana. Gondwana was the southern landmass of Pangaea. It consisted of the modern day continents Africa, South America, Australia, India, Arabia, Antarctica, and the European Balkans.
What type of fault was the Great Chilean Earthquake on?
The plate boundary the Chile earthquake occurred on in 2010 was the converging boundary. A converging boundary is when two plates move closer together.
In this case the converging boundary moved so close together that the plates hut one another. They then subducted under on another and the earthquake was formed.
Jeffrey Chodorow (Majority owner) sued Rocco DiSpirito for control of Rocco's on 22nd Street, and in July 2004 Mr. DiSpirito was barred from the restaurant (even though his mother, Nicolina, remained and made meatballs). The restaurant closed in September of that year.
What layer of the Earth makes up the tectonic plates and what layer are the continents sliding on?
The continents of the Earth are sliding through the asthenosphere. This is the viscous part of the mantle on which the plates of the lithosphere sit.
Are tectonic plates large and small slabs of rocks?
Tectonic plates are very large (their highest points form the continents) and constitute the hard crust of the planet.
They sit afloat the mantle - molten material called magma - and they are formed from- and return to- magma as parts of the plates are cooled or heated.
What happened in January 2007?
Many things happened in this year...coming into this year most thought that this would be the greastest year of them all knowing that 7 is a "lucky" number. However some things happened this year were not so lucky such as the Virginia Tech Massacre. The United States also had more missing children this year than ever.
What showed proof for Alfred Wegener on Pangaea?
We know Pangaea existed because of fossil evidence. There were fossils of the same animal found on Africa and South America. This animal couldn't have possibly swam across the ocean. Therefore, making the idea of Pangaea plausible.
What geologic event happened first in Pangaea?
In theory, the Big Bang Theory was the first thing to occur. From a biblical perspective, it was the divine intervention of God that created light as the first event.
A young german scientist named Alfred Wegener came up with it.
Alfred Wegener of Germany.
Wegener pronounced Veg-ner.
He died in Iceland trying to prove his theory and is now frozen in a glacier
What does computer modeling show about the breakup of Pangaea?
It shows that Pangaea was a long continent that crossed the equator. Asia & North America then split from the other continent. Antarctica split off the rest.
The continental drift pulled all the continents away from each other. I LUV MUSHROOMS!
The Pangaea theory is one that states that all present continents were once together and collectively known as a 'supercontinent' called a Pangaea. The word 'Pangaea' means 'all lands' in Greek, accurately defining the way the continents were 200 millions years ago before it split up. These split-up pieces drifted slowly apart and became the way they are today. Even until now, the shape of the Earth surface is still changing, and it will be forever, as long as the mantle underneath the Earth's crust gets heated and convection currents in the magma keeps dragging the plates.
The Pangaea theory was treated with much skepticsm when it was first raised. But since then, there have been much evidence to support this theory.
The Pangaea theory is the theory that once all the continents consisted of one large super-continent called Pangaea and that there was one massive ocean called the Panthalassa Ocean.
Many historical events happened on Jun 19 throughout the years, including the skirmish at Pine Knob, Georgia in 1864 and in 1865 it was the day that Union General Granger declared slaves in Texas were free. June 19, 1865 was the day of the siege of Richmond, VA and in 1862 it was the day that slavery was outlawed in the United States territories.
What happened on 14th April 1844?
The Battle of Culloden (Scottish Gaelic: Blàr Chùil Lodair) was the final confrontation of the 1745 Jacobite rising. Taking place on 16 April 1746, the battle pitted the Jacobite forces of Charles Edward Stewart against an army commanded by William Agustus, Duke of Cumberland, loyal to the British government. The Jacobite cause of overthrowing the reigning House of Hanover and restoring the House of Stuart to the British throne was dealt a decisive defeat at Culloden; Charles Stuart never mounted any further attempts to challenge Hanoverian power in Britain. The conflict was the last pitched battle fought on British soil, occurring near Inverness in the Scottish Highlands.
Charles Stuart's Jacobite army consisted largely of Scottish Highlanders, as well as a number of Lowland Scots and a small detachment of Englishmen from the Manchester Regiment. The Jacobites were supported and supplied by the Kingdom of France and French and Irish units loyal to France were part of the Jacobite army. The government force was mostly English, along with a significant number of Scottish Lowlanders and Highlanders, a battalion of Ulster men from Ireland, and a small number of Hessians from Germany and Austrians. The battle on Culloden Moor was both quick and bloody, taking place within an hour. Following an unsuccessful Highland Charge against the government lines, the Jacobites were routed and driven from the field.
Between 1,500 and 2,000 Jacobites were killed or wounded in the brief battle, while government losses were lighter with 50 dead and 259 wounded. The aftermath of the battle and subsequent crackdown on Jacobitism was brutal, earning Cumberland the sobriquet "Butcher". Efforts were subsequently taken to further integrate the comparatively wild Highlands into the Kingdom of Great Britain; civil penalties were introduced to weaken Gaelic Culture and attack the Scottish clan system.
What happened on August 15 1945?
The US Army B-29 Superfortress, named Enola Gay (named after the pilot's mother), dropped history's first Nuclear Weapon on the city of Hiroshima, Japan.
Many events happend in 1560 around the world. In England, Elizabeth the first was ruling and dealing with Mary Queen of scotts. This was also a time of William Shakespeare. Musicans of the time included William Brade and Peter Philips. French, Scotting and English culture dominated the global society at this time. It's also speculated that at this time Piracy in the lower hemispere( such as the Caribbean ) reached it's peak some where during this time period. Alot of this information is avilable with a simple google or Wiki search.
What happened on march 4 1789?
In 1789, the first U.S. Congress convened in New York City until September 29; 28 senators and 65 representatives sat for the 13 states. In 1793, George Washington was inaugurated in Philadelphia for a second term as president of the United States.
2 days after entering Rome, Italy, on June 4th, 1944, the Allies, the Americans, British, and Canadians launched the D-Day landings of the D-Day invasion of Normandy, leading to the liberation of France. The D-Day landing was rough. This is because there was a large wall with over 3,000 artilleries Hitler ordered to be built. Since the fall of France in June, 1940, Adolf Hitler was building a large barricade wall, stretching from Norway to the Spanish Border. This was in order to stop the Allied invasion. The Allies couldn't win if they directly attacked, so they decided to invade Italy first, in hope of forcing that nation out of the war. In order to be able to overrun the Nazi German defenses, a massive naval bombardment had been called in. The American Marines went west of Juno Beach on Omaha Beach, while the British and Canadians pushed south of Juno Beach. The Americans were lucky, because most of the British and Canadians were killed by most German tanks taking them by surprise.
Some rebels from the great revolt in 135 C.E. against the Romans fled there. The Romans started beseiging them. Because of the inaccesablity of Massada, the Romans started to build a ramp to get to the fortress. When the ramp got up to the top and they saw that the Romans were about to enter the fortress, the defenders decided to commit suicide rather than be captured. Each man went and killed his family so that his family would not be captured and sold into slavery; then all the men cast a lottery. The man whose lot came up killed all the rest of his companions and then fell on his own sword. All this is known because two woman and a couple of children hid in a cistern in the fortress and told Josephus Flavius the famous Jewish historian. The pottery shards were found from the lottery with the men's names on them just recently. The archeological evidence proves that what the women told was accurate.
