PLACAS TECTONICAS - CONTINENTES

 
 
 
 
PLACAS TECTONICAS - CONTINENTES
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ESTUDIANTE: MARIA CAMILA PAZ SOLARTE
PROGRAMA: ING CIVIL
SEMESTRE: 4
DOCENTE: MAURICIO DAVID PABON MIÑO
UNIVERSIDAD MARIANA
 SAN JUAN DE PASTO
 
29-AGOSTO-2021
 
 
 INTRODUCTION

Tectonic plates are rigid plates of solid

rocks that make up the surface of the
earth floating on a layer of molten rock
that makes up the mantle, in this work
our goal is to inform and learn about
these theories, reaching a conclusion
that plate tectonics has become known
after several theories and practices,
solving great doubts and questions
about the principle of the continents,
this has served as a great help to
understand how the earth could have
been many years ago and how it has
become today although it is in
continuous change
Plate tectonics

Today's Earth is the result of a constant process

of geological evolution developed over 4.5
billion years. Continents are neither fixed nor
stable. Throughout the history of the planet,
they have been displaced by currents generated
by the intense heat of its center; the large plates
on which they rest have moved, collided, joined
to others or separated. These processes continue
to shape and transform the surface, cause
earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, and create
oceans, mountain ranges, sea trenches, and
island chains.
ORIGIN OF THE TECTONIC
PLATES
• The origin of the movement of the
plates is in some currents of
materials that happen in the mantle,
the so-called convection currents,
and above all, in the force of
gravity. Convection currents are
produced by differences in
temperature and density, so that
hotter materials weigh less and rise,
and colder materials are denser,
heavier, and descend.
FORMING OF THE CONTINENTS

• It was formed by the

movement of tectonic plates, which
about 335 million years ago united
all previous continents into one.
Subsequently, about 175 million
years ago, it began to fracture and
disperse until reaching the current
situation of the continents, in a
process that continues.
THEORY OF THE CONTINENTAL
DERIVATIVE
Continental drift is the displacement of
continental masses from one another.
This theory was developed in 1912 by
the German Alfred Wegener from
various empirical-rational observations,
but it was not until the 1960s,with the
development of plate tectonics, that the
movement of the continents could be
adequately explained.