Fig. 1 Mountain Building and Drifting Continents: Major Concepts

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Mountain Building and Drifting Continents: Major Concepts

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How do we reconstruct paleo continental positions?

• Early pioneers had to use geology (glacial striations, salt deposits), paleontology (fossils) and geometry

• But all this changed when paleomagnetism was discovered and used to recreate positions of continents in the past.

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Nature of Sea Floor

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