ASIAN INSTITUE OF COMPUTER STUDIES (AICS) – MONTALBAN

Montalban Town Center, San Jose, Rodriguez, Rizal

1st Semester, 1st Quarter, S.Y.: 2017 – 2018

Written Report in NTS 111 Earth and Life Science

Submitted by: Christine Mae T. Cion

Angelika A. Launion
Submitted to: Mr. German D.M. Vertudez
Submitted on: July 10, 2017
Deformation of the Crust
The crust deforms as a result of the stress generated from endogenic process deep
within the earth. Historically, this has already been observed by a scientist named
Alfred Wegener in 1912 when he wrote in his book, “The Origin of Continents and
Oceans” that continents were actually connected to each other. Supported by
different evidences, later on this Continental Drift theory of Alfred Wegener
expended into what we know now as Plate Tectonics.

3. Rock and Structure

In the same way that coastline of continents appear to fit together, several
mountain belts that run across the land masses of Brazil and Africa, British Isles
and Scandinavia, And Appalachians seem to fit together. Alfred Wegener found
evidence of the age of such rocks to be close to each other.

4. Ancient Climate
Going back to our previous statement on terrestrial fossil, the presence of
Glossopteris in Antarctica raised a big question: Why is there (polar region?) The answer
can be found in the continents of South America, Africa, Australia and Eurasia. Ancient
glacier deposits (of around 300 million years old) covered the southern coastlines of these
continents. When stitched together, it forms a large ice sheet covering the whole of
Antarctica with the some portions of the continents. It is difficult to imagine ice covering
these continents as of the presents given their latitude locations (some near the equator).
Therefore, it must be that the continents were once near the polar regions and drifted away.