What are evidence supporting plate tectonics?

Answer 1

* Identical fossils of a small reptile have been found in Africa and Soth America * Mountains in Europe and the USA were once part of a large mountain chain * Rocks found in Britain were formaed in desert conditions

Answer 2

The theory of plate tectonics has succumbed to the newer theory of continental drift. Scientists believe this theory today due to three main factors. First, the continents appear to fit together. When the continental shelves, as opposed to just the continents, are placed together, the fit appears uncanny. Second, the distribution of fossils is consistent with continental drift. Lastly, glacial deposits once covered parts of the earth that are currently tropical.

ANSWER: The plate tectonics theory is relatively new and formulated only in the 1960s. The evidence listed above in the first answer can only support the continental drift theory which was developed by Alfred Wegener in 1912. Evidence that can support the plate tectonics theory are the age, depth of oceanic sediments, volcanic activity, geothermal gradient, gravity anomalies, paleomagnetism and seismologic evidence. If you are answering an exam question on evidence supporting plate tectonics, evidence supporting continental drift theory should only come later in your answer and should not be given too much emphasis, for the plate tectonics theory involves more than just the continental crust drifting around and cannot support the main hypotheses of the plate tectonics theory.

Answer 3

It has not yet officially been proved, but scientists and geologists believe it just as much as the theory of evolution and Continental Drift Things that make it likely to be true:

- Similar rocks on different continents

- Mountains

- Volcano's

- Earthquake's

- The distance from certain places that change

- The presence of rocks that could only be formed under extremely high pressure and high temperature

Answer 4

there are more evidences, but i know some.

1. Fossil Evidence: similar fossils are found on different parts of the world

2. Continents fit together like puzzle pieces: the original "Pangea" was all one big connected super continent.

3. Bands of rock on the ocean floor: the magnetic field splits down the middle and creates newer rocks to form and the older rocks to move out

Answer 5

chains of volcanoes along ocean Coastlines

Answer 6

Chains of volcanoes along ocean coastlines

Answer 7

the evidence of rugs