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It is a supercontinent that incorporated
almost all the landmasses on Earth.

AAEAGNP
PANGAEA
It was a golden time for dinosaurs, which
flourished for 199-145 million years.
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SSUARJIC OIEDPR
JURASSIC PERIOD
It preserved remains or traces of organisms
(plants and animals) from the remote past.

OISSSLF
FOSSILS
It is produced from organic matter like
dead plants and animals.

AOLC
COAL
This theory deals with the distribution of
the oceans and the continents.

OIENNNTALCT FTIRD
OERTHY
CONTINENTAL DRIFT
THEORY
EVIDENCES OF PLATE
MOVEMENTS:

CONTINENTAL
DRIFT THEORY
 Learning Objectives:
• Identify the different evidences supporting
Continental Drift Theory;
• Discuss the pieces of evidences that
supporting continental drift theory;
• Reconstruct the Pangaea by use of
evidences found in different continents.
Alfred Lothar Wegener (1880-1930)
• A German polar researcher,
geophysicist, and meteorologist who
formulated the first complete statement
of the Continental Drift Theory on 6
January 1912
 CONTINENTAL DRIFT
• Refers to the movement of continents spreading
THEORY
apart from one another, where they once were one
large landmass.

• Alfred states that the continents had once formed a

singular supercontinent called “Pangaea”, a Greek
word which means "All Earth or All Land."
 EVIDENCE: THE
CONTINENTAL JIGSAW
PUZZLE
EVIDENCE FROM THE
ROCKS
• Geological "fit" evidence is
the matching of large-scale
geological features on
different continents.
 EVIDENCE FROM THE CLIMATE
• Glaciers is a large accumulation of crystalline ice, snow,
rock, sediment, and often liquid water that originates on
land.

Glaciers Grooves Glaciers Striations

EVIDENCE FROM THE FOSSILS
 EVIDENCE FROM THE FOSSILS
The Mesosaurus is known to have
been a type of reptile, similar to the
modern crocodile, which propelled
itself through the water with its long
hind legs and limber tail. It lived
during the early Permian period (286
to 258 million years ago).
 EVIDENCE FROM THE FOSSILS
The Cynognathus was a mammal-
like reptile. Roaming the terrains
during the Triassic period (250 to
240 million years ago), the
Cynognathus was as large as a
modern wolf.
 EVIDENCE FROM THE FOSSILS
The Lystrosaurus, which also known
as "shovel lizard," is thought to have
been a herbivore with a stout built
like a pig.
 EVIDENCE FROM THE FOSSILS
The Glossopteris, genus of fossilized
woody plants known from rocks that
have been dated to the Permian and
Triassic periods (roughly 300 to 200
million years ago), deposited on the
southern supercontinent of Gondwana.
 EVIDENCE FROM THE FOSSILS

• Coal beds were formed from the compaction and decomposition of swamp
plants that lived million years ago.